Henri Paul René Ceuppens (8 January 1923 – 7 October 2012), who wrote under the
pseudonym
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Ivo Michiels, was a
Belgian writer.
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Biography
Michiels was born in Mortsel
Mortsel () is a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality and City status in Belgium, city close to the city of Antwerp located in the Belgium, Belgian province of Antwerp (province), Antwerp. The municipality only comprises the city of Mortsel pr ...
. During World War II he was employed as a nurse in a hospital in Lübeck
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in Germany. He worked as a laboratory assistant for a while, and from 1948 up to 1957 he worked as a journalist at ''Het Handelsblad''. In 1965, he married Christiane Faes.
From 1957 up to 1978 he worked at the publisher ''Ontwikkeling'' (E: Development).
From 1959 until 1983 he was editor, and editorial secretary of the ''Nieuw Vlaams Tijdschrift''. From 1966 up to 1978 he also taught at the ''Hoger Rijksinstituut voor Toneel- en Cultuurspreiding'' in Brussels
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. In 1979, he established himself as a full-time writer in the Vaucluse
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Awards
* 1958 – Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord for ''Het afscheid''.
* 1977 – Prijs van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap voor Proza—then named ''Driejaarlijkse Staatsprijs voor verhalend proza''—for ''Een tuin tussen hond en wolf''
* 1990 – Emile Bernheim-prijs for his works
* 1993 – Prijs van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap
* 2012 – America Award from The Contemporary Arts Educational Project "for his lifetime contribution to international writing". Previous winners of this "alternatif Nobel Prize in Literature
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" were, amongst others, Harold Pinter
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(1995), Peter Handke
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(2002), José Saramago
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(2004) en Javier Marías (2010)
List of works
* ''Begrensde verten'' (1946, poetry)
* ''Daar tegenover'' (1947, poetry)
* ''Zo, ga dan'' (1947, novelle)
* ''Het vonnis'' (1949, novel)
* ''Kruistocht der jongelingen'' (1951, novel)
* ''Spaans capriccio'' (1952, short storie)
* ''De ogenbank'' (1953, novel)
* ''De meeuwen sterven in de haven'' (1955, novel, films cenario), made into a film of the Seagulls Die in the Harbour">same name in 1956
* ''Het afscheid'' (1957, novel)
* ''Journal brut, Ikjes sprokkelen'' (1958, novel)
* ''Albisola Mare, Savona'' (1959, novel)
* ''Dertien Vlamingen'' (1961, bloemlezing)
* ''Het boek Alfa'' (1963, novel)
* ''Frans Dille'' (1963, essay)
* ''Antwerpen, stad aan de stroom'' (tekst bij fotoalbum van F. Tas) (1965)
* ''Verhalen uit Journal brut'' (1966)
* ''Het afscheid'' (1966, film scenario)
* ''Orchis militaris'' (1968, novel)
* ''Exit'' (1971, novel)
* ''Jef Verheyen'', 40 (1972, bibliophile edition)
* ''Alechinsky'' (1973, essay)
* ''Samuel, o Samuel'' (1973, radio play)
* ''Dieric Bouts'' (1975, film scenario)
* ''Een tuin tussen hond en wolf'' (1977, novel, film scenario)
* ''Itinerarium'' (1979, essay)
* ''Dixi''(''t'') (1979, novel)
* ''Luister hoe dit beeld hoe die lijn hoe die kleur hoe dit vlak luister'' (1979, essays)
* ''Een letterwerker aan het woord'' (1980)
* ''De vrouwen van de aarstengel'' (1983, novel)
* ''De toverberg in Sank Seb'' (1984, uit "De vrouwen van de aartsengel", in "Vlaamse verhalen na 1965")
* ''Het boek der nauwe relaties'' (1985)
* ''Vlaanderen, ook een land'' (1987)
* ''Prima materia'' (1989)
* ''Ondergrond bovengronds'' (1991)
* ''Schildwacht schuldwacht'' (1993)
* ''Daar komen schervan van'' (1995)
* ''Sissi'' (1997)
* ''De verrukking'' (1999, novel)
* ''De mirakelen, Elizabeth, de mirakelen'' (?)
See also
* Flemish literature
*''Woman Between Wolf and Dog''
References
External links
*
Ivo Michiels
Ivo Michiels
"Contemporary Dutch and Flemish Short Stories / Ivo Michiels", Radio Netherlands Archives
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1923 births
2012 deaths
Flemish poets
People from Mortsel
20th-century Belgian novelists
21st-century Belgian novelists
Belgian male novelists
Belgian male short story writers
20th-century Belgian poets
Belgian male poets
20th-century Belgian screenwriters
Belgian essayists
20th-century Belgian short story writers
21st-century Belgian short story writers
20th-century essayists
21st-century essayists
20th-century Belgian male writers
21st-century Belgian male writers
Belgian nurses
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