Albert Bontridder (4 April 1921 – 13 December 2015) was a Belgian architect and writer, born in
Anderlecht
Anderlecht (; ) is one of the List of municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located in the south-western part of the region, it is bordered by the City of Brussels, Forest, B ...
. In 1953, he married Olga Dohnalova, a
Czech
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refugee, and together they had two children.
He graduated as an architect in 1942. As an architect, he made the plan for the house of his friend
Louis Paul Boon
Lodewijk Paul Aalbrecht (Louis Paul) Boon (15 March 1912, in Aalst, Belgium, Aalst – 10 May 1979, in Erembodegem) was a Belgian writer of novels, poetry, pornography, columns and art criticism in Flemish dialects, Flemish. He was also a painter. ...
. In 1952 he was a founding member and editor of the magazine Architecture in Brussels. He was an editor of the experimental illustrated magazines ''Tijd en Mens'' (E: Time and Man) (1949–1955) and ''Kentering'' (E: Change) (1966–1977). He published his first poems in French and he made his actual debut with ''Hoog water'' (E: high tide) (1951).
Bibliography
* Poésie se brise (poetry, 1951)
* Hoog water (poetry, 1951)
* Dood hout (poetry, 1955)
* Bagatelle – hangende vis (poetry, 1960)
* Jacques Dupuis ou l'architecture perdue et retrouvée (monography, 1961)
* Dialoog tussen licht en stilte (study, 1963)
* Open einde (poetry, 1967)
* De bankreet ''vader'' (anthology, 1968)
* Ook de nacht is een zon (poetry, 1969)
* Zelfverbranding (poetry, 1971)
* Gedichten 1942–1972 (1973)
* Voor een waterdruppel (poetry, 1975)
* Vingerknippen naar een vlinder (poetry, 1976)
* Een brug slaan (poetry, 1977)
* Huizen vieren haat (poetry, 1979)
* Gevecht met de rede. Leo Stijnen : leven en werk (essay, 1979)
* Inleiding tot de poëzie van Marcel Wauters (1981)
* Brussel: poëzie over een stad (1981) (and other authors)
* Een oog te veel (poetry, 1984)
* Poésie flamande d' aujoud'hui (essay, 1986)
* Marcel Coole vierde onlangs zijn 80ste verjaardag (article, 1994)
* Versnipperde intenties (poetry, 1997) (and other authors)
* Is de acacia mij bekend (poetry, 1999)
Awards
* 1957 –
Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord
The Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord (Ark Prize of the Free Word) is a symbolic award created in 1951 by Herman Teirlinck and the editorial team of the ''Nieuw Vlaams Tijdschrift'' (New Flemish magazine) to counteract ideologically driven restrictions ...
* 1960 – Literaire prijs van de provincie Brabant
* 1970 – Dirk Martensprijs
* 1972 – Jan Campertprijs
See also
*
Flemish literature
Flemish literature is literature from Flanders, historically a region comprising parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. Until the early 19th century, this literature was regarded as an integral part of Dutch literature. After B ...
References
Sources
Albert BontridderAlbert Bontridder*
Willem M. Roggeman, 'Albert Bontridder' In: Beroepsgeheim 1 (1975)
1921 births
Belgian writers in French
Flemish writers
2015 deaths
People from Anderlecht
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