Josephus Albertus "Jos" Vandeloo (5 September 1925 – 5 October 2015) was a Belgian writer and poet.
Biography
He grew up in a mining family from
Zonhoven
Zonhoven (; ) is a municipality located in the middle of the Belgian province of Limburg located north of Hasselt and also borders Houthalen-Helechteren, Genk and Heusden-Zolder. It’s an urbanized municipality, in the edge area of Hasselt. The ...
and graduated as a chemist for the mining industry.
After the war he started working in the mine as a coal specialist and for this he travelled throughout Europe (up to 1953). At the same time he also studied Dutch and French literature at the ''Royal Academy'' and the ''Higher Institute for Arts'' in Antwerp.
After his career in the mine (as deputy director), he became director of the Belgian division of the publisher ''Manteau'', which published a number of his works. In the sixties he was for a while sports commentator for the Belgian Radio and Television (BRT). Since 1963 he has lived 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 ...
near Antwerp.
He made his debut in 1955 with the collection of poems: ''Speelse parade'' (''Playful parade'') and became well known with the stories ''De muur'' (''The wall'') en ''Het gevaar'' (''The danger''). In 1982, he devoted himself full-time to writing.
In his work he generally describes the negative impact of modern society, such as loneliness and alienation and he tries to strive for an idealistic, paradisaical environment. He not only wrote novels, stories and poetry but also wrote several screenplays for television and also theatre plays. His work has been translated into several European languages (such as Russian and Romanian) and he has won several awards.
Bibliography
* ''Het kruis dat wij dragen'' (1953)
* ''Speelse parade'' (1955)
* ''Wij waren twee soldaten'' (1955)
* ''Woorden der doofstommen'' (1957)
* ''De muur'' (1958)
* ''Wachten op het groene licht'' (1959)
* ''Het gevaar'' (1960)
* ''De vijand'' (1962)
* ''Zeng'' (1962)
* ''De croton'' (1963)
* ''Het huis der onbekenden'' (1963)
* ''Dadels voor een vizier'' (1965)
* ''Een mannetje uit Polen'' (1965)
* ''Vlaamse poëzie'' (1965)
* ''Copernicus of De bloemen van het geluk'' (1967)
* ''De Coladrinkers'' (1968)
* ''De 10 minuten van Stanislas Olo'' (1969)
* ''De glimlach van een vlinder'' (1969)
* ''De week van de kapiteins'' (1969)
* ''Nieuwe avonturen van Hokus en Pokus'' (1970)
* ''Bent u ook zo'n Belg'' (1972)
* ''Waarom slaap je, liefje'' (1972)
* ''De muggen'' (1973)
* ''Schilfers hebben scherpe kanten'' (1974)
* ''Splitter haben scharfe Kanten'' (1974)
* ''Mannen'' (1975)
* ''Vrouwen'' (1978)
* ''De Engelse les'' (1980)
* ''Sarah'' (1982)
* ''Les Hollandais sont là'' (1985)
* ''Opa's droom'' (1987)
* ''De weg naar de Ardennen'' (1988)
* ''Hong Kong'' (1988)
* ''De beklimming van de Mont Ventoux'' (1990)
* ''Kolonie of reservaat'' (essay, 1992)
* ''De vogelvrouw'' (1993)
* ''De man die niet van de deurwaarder hield en andere verhalen'' (1995)
* ''De liefdesboom'' (1998)
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 ...
Sources
*
Jos Vandeloo
Jos Vandeloo
* G.J. van Bork en P.J. Verkruijsse, De Nederlandse en Vlaamse auteurs (1985)
External links
1925 births
Flemish writers
2015 deaths
People from Zonhoven
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