Luc Indestege

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Luc Indestege was born in Zonhoven on 5 February 1901 and died in Brussels on 11 July 1974. He was a Dutch-speaking Belgian poet and prose writer. [1]

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Life

Indestege studied Germanic philology at the Catholic University of Louvain 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 University of Padua 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 Louise Labé and the Goliards. 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). [2]

Publications

Portraits

There are several portraits of Luc Indestege by the painter Jules Lismonde:

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References

  1. ↑ "Schrijvers en dichters (DBNL biografieënproject I) · DBNL".
  2. ↑ K. ter Laan, Letterkundig woordenboek voor Noord en Zuid (1952)
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