Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know.
AliasesHugo Maurice Julien Claus; Dorothea van Male; Jan Hyoens; Thea Streiner
BornApril 5, 1929
DiedMarch 19, 2008
CountryBelgium
ProfessionScreenwriter; Playwright; Poet; Writer; Film Director; Painter; Translator
WorksThe Sorrow Of Belgium
AwardsConstantijn Huygens Prize; Libris Prize; Knight Of The Order Of The Crown; Flemish Culture Award For General Cultural Achievement; Ark Prize Of The Free Word; Henriëtte Roland Holst Award; Prijs Der Nederlandse Letteren; Herman Gorterprijs; Cestoda Price
