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Profile of Hugo Claus
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Hugo Claus |
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5th April 1929 |
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Brugge, West Flanders, Belgium |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia Hugo Maurice Julien Claus (born April 5, 1929 in Bruges, Belgium) is a prolific Flemish novelist, poet, playwright, painter and film director. He is considered to be one of the most important contemporary Dutch language authors.
Bibliography
Claus has written over a thousand pages of poetry, more than sixty plays, over twenty novels and several essays, film scripts, libretti and translations. Only a small part of this Å“uvre has been translated into English:
- Prose:
- The Duck Hunt, 1955 (De Metsiers, 1950)
- Sister of Earth, 1966 (De Metsiers, 1950)
- The Sorrow of Belgium, 1990 (Het verdriet van België, 1983) (ISBN 1585672386)
- The Swordfish, 1996 (De Zwaardvis, 1989) (ISBN 0720609852)
- Desire, 1997 (Het verlangen, 1978) (ISBN 0140255389)
- Poetry:
- with Karel Appel: Love Song, 1963 (written in English)
- with Pierre Alechinsky and Karel Appel: Two-brush paintings: Their poems by Hugo Claus, 1980 (Zwart, 1978)
- Selected Poems 1953-1973, 1986
- The Sign of the Hamster, 1986 (Het teken van de Hamster, 1964)
- Theatre:
- Friday, 1972 (Vrijdag, 1969)
- Four Works for the Theatre, 1990 (ISBN 0966615212)
- Friday, 1993 (Vrijdag, 1969)
- Essay:
- Karel Appel, Painter, 1962 (Karel Appel, Schilder, 1964)
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