Luc Indestege was born in

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on 5 February 1901 and died in

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on 11 July 1974. He was a Dutch-speaking Belgian poet and prose writer.

Life

Indestege studied

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at the

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and obtained his doctorate in 1925 based on his thesis about Henriette Roland Holst. He began his career as a teacher at the Athénée royal de Bruxelles (Collegium Theresianum) and then became a teaching assistant for the Dutch language at the

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between 1952 and 1956.

His literary accomplishment

His melancholy verses made him famous as a poet. He also translated into Dutch from French, Latin and Italian. The texts were written by many foreign writers and poets such as

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and the

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. He also published surveys about Italian literature. In 1942 he was awarded the Auguste Beernaert Prize for his poetry collection ''Orpheus and Eurudike'' (Orphée and Eurydice).K. ter Laan, ''Letterkundig woordenboek voor Noord en Zuid'' (1952)

Publications

* ''Vale dicere'', 1932 (collection of poems) * ''Andioenora'', 1934 * ''Rondom Erasmus' Lof der zotheid'', 1937 (essay) * ''De zeven hoofdzonden'', 1938 * ''Orpheus en Eurudike'', 1941 (collection of poems) * ''XXIV Sonnetten'', 1945 (translation of the work of

) * ''Het geschil tussen dwaasheid en liefde'', 1946 * ''Estuans intrinsecus'', 1950 (translation of the

) * ''Quaderno Fiorentino, Indrukken en gesprekken'', 1951 (study of Italian literature) * ''De Jonge Leopardi'', 1957 * ''Kroniek der Italiaanse letteren'', 1961 * ''Laïs, Lyrisch spel in drie bedrijven'', 1964 * ''Giovanni Papini'', 1968 * ''Iets is voorgoed voorbij'', 1976 (posthumously published)

Portraits

There are several portraits of Luc Indestege by the painter Jules Lismonde: * Portrait of Luc Indestege, charcoal pencil on paper, 970x650mm (catalogue raisonné n°830) * Sketch for a portrait of Luc Indestege, 1944, graphite on paper, 162x111mm (Maison Lismonde’s collection, Linkebeek) (cat. 922) * Portrait of Luc Indetedge, 1951, charcoal pencilon paper, 1020x820 mm. (cat. 1476) * Portrait of Luc Indestedge, 1952 (Maison Lismonde’ collection, Linkebeek), (cat. 1514)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Indestege, Luc 1901 births 1974 deaths 20th-century Belgian poets Belgian male poets People from Zonhoven Université catholique de Louvain alumni 20th-century Belgian male writers