Benno Barnard
(The Netherlands, 1954)
Benno Barnard originates from Amsterdam, but has lived in Belgium for over thirty …
Dirk van Bastelaere
(Belgium, 1960)
Dirk van Bastelaere debuted with the collection of verses, Vijf jaar (Five Years, …
Paul Bogaert
(Belgium, 1968)
Paul Bogaert debuted in 1996 with the collection of poems, WELCOME HYGIENE, featuring …
Geert Buelens
(Belgium, 1971)
Geert Buelens is a poet and Professor of Modern Dutch Literature at the University of …
Gaston Burssens
(Belgium, 1896–1965)
Gaston Burssens was an odd man out in the world of Dutch-language poetry. As the author …
Hugo Claus
(Belgium, 1929–2008)
Hugo Claus was the wonder boy of Flemish literature for more than half a century. Apart …
William Cliff
(Belgium, 1940)
William Cliff was born in 1940 in the small Walloon town of Gembloux. He studied …
Eva Cox
(Belgium, 1970)
Eva Cox is a late-bloomer. She began writing poetry just before she turned thirty, in …
Herman De Coninck
(Belgium, 1944–1997)
On 22 May 1997, when Herman De Coninck died in Lisbon of a cardiac arrest during a …
Jos De Haes
(Belgium, 1920–1974)
The Flemish poet Jos de Haes left a modest, idiosyncratic, body of work that …
Bernard Dewulf
(Belgium, 1960)
To regularly grace the front page of a quality newspaper for years: for many writers …
Charles Ducal
(Belgium, 1952)
It isn’t often that a pig farmer writes poetry, but Flanders has an extraordinary …
Christine D’haen
(Belgium, 1923–2009)
Christine D’haen was undoubtedly the most important female poet of post-war Flemish and …
Guido Gezelle
(Belgium, 1830–1899)
The Bruges-born poet-priest Guido Gezelle is generally considered as one of the masters …
Maurice Gilliams
(Belgium, 1900–1982)
When Maurice Gilliams won the Grand Prize for Literature in 1980, many a newspaper …
Luuk Gruwez
(Belgium, 1953)
Luuk Gruwez debuted in 1973 at a young age with the collection of poems, …
Hadewijch
(Belgium, c. 1240)
Hadewijch is at the very heart of literature from the low countries. This mystic from …
Stefan Hertmans
(Belgium, 1951)
Stefan Hertmans is professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. He is considered one …
Peter Holvoet-Hanssen
(Belgium, 1960)
Peter Holvoet-Hanssen worked as a dolphin keeper before debuting in 1998 with the …
Maarten Inghels
(Belgium, 1988)
Maarten Inghels lives in Antwerp’s Schipperskwartier, the red light district near the …
Mark Insingel
(Belgium, 1935)
Mark Insingel made his debut in 1963 with the collection Drijfhout (Driftwood). From …
Roland Jooris
(Belgium, 1936)
Although Roland Jooris published a relatively small number of poetry volumes over a …
Ruth Lasters
(Belgium, 1979)
In her neatly constructed poems, Ruth Lasters delights in presenting ideas as business …
Jan Lauwereyns
(Belgium, 1969)
Jan Lauwereyns (Antwerp, 1969) writes about his love for silence. His poetry embodies a …
Delphine Lecompte
(Belgium, 1978)
Delphine Lecompte debuted in 2004 in America with Kittens in the Boiler, a novel that …
Patricia De Martelaere
(Belgium, 1957)
Patricia de Martelaere studied philosophy at the University of Louvain and obtained her …
Bart Meuleman
(Belgium, 1965)
Bart Meuleman is a playwright, writes essays on subjects such as politics and pop music …
Richard Minne
(Belgium, 1891–1965)
Richard Minne counts among Flanders’ most respected poets, but also among its …
Bart Moeyaert
(Belgium, 1964)
Bart Moeyaert says he produces poetry only in driblets. More than as a poet, he is …
Els Moors
(Belgium, 1976)
With her 2006 debut, Er hangt een hoge lucht boven ons (There is a tall sky above us), …
Leonard Nolens
(Belgium, 1947)
Leonard Nolens is a monumental figure in Flemish poetry. His poetry forms one of the …
Paul van Ostaijen
(Belgium, 1896–1928)
Paul van Ostaijen (1896-1928) is the most influential poet Flanders has ever produced. …
Hugues C. Pernath
(Belgium, 1931–1975)
Hugues C. Pernath is the attractive literary pseudonym of Hugo Wouters, who was born in …
Jan de Roek
(Belgium, 1941–1971)
In 1971, at the age of thirty, Jan de Roek died in a road accident. De Roek was a …
Eugène Savitzkaya
(Belgium, 1955)
Most of the texts by Eugène Savitzkaya are labelled as ‘novels’, but all of his work – …
André Schmitz
(Belgium, 1929)
‘The poet is the surveyor of the invisible,’ writes André Schmitz, who was born on 17 …
Paul Snoek
(Belgium, 1933–1981)
Paul Snoek, the pseudonym of Edmond Schietekat, was one of the most celebrated and …
Erik Spinoy
(Belgium, 1960)
Erik Spinoy is a poet and professor of Dutch literature at the University of …
Lucienne Stassaert
(Belgium, 1936)
As a young woman, Lucienne Stassaert (1936) was a promising concert pianist, but quite …
Jeroen Theunissen
(Belgium, 1977)
Most people associate poetry with rhyme and romance, with emotion and personal …
Peter Theunynck
(Belgium, 1962)
Peter Theunynck’s body houses twin souls: a virtuoso aesthete and a contrary …
Karel van de Woestijne
(Belgium, 1878–1929)
Karel van de Woestijne is perhaps the most important post-symbolist poet to have …
Stefaan van den Bremt
(Belgium, 1941)
Stefaan van den Bremt made his debut in 1968 with poems classified as neo-realistic, …
Miriam Van hee
(Belgium, 1952)
Miriam Van hee debuted in 1978 with her poems about homesickness, melancholy and …
Hubert van Herreweghen
(Belgium, 1920)
Hubert van Herreweghen made his début during the Second World War as a poet expressing …
Geert van Istendael
(Belgium, 1947)
Brussels and Belgium: both are impossible to avoid in the oeuvre of Geert van …
Mark van Tongele
(Belgium, 1956)
In personal correspondence, Mark van Tongele invariably signs off with the words …
Eddy Van Vliet
(Belgium, 1942–2002)
Eddy van Vliet, who in daily life was a practising lawyer, was also someone for whom …
Peter Verhelst
(Belgium, 1962)
For poet and novelist Peter Verhelst, creation equals destruction. His motifs and …
 

 
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