Marc Quaghebeur (born Tournai, 1947) is a Belgian poet and essayist. [1] He is director of the Archives and Museum of Literature in Brussels. [2] He has a truly Belgian surname. It derives from Dutch Kwagebeur and has been adapted to the French spelling tradition.
Paul-Émile Janson was a francophone Belgian liberal politician and Prime Minister (1937–1938). During the German occupation, he was arrested as a political prisoner and died in a German concentration camp in 1944.
Victor Segalen was a French naval doctor, ethnographer, archeologist, writer, poet, explorer, art-theorist, linguist and literary critic.
Xavier Marmier was a French author born in Pontarlier, in Doubs. He had a passion for travelling, and this he combined throughout his life with the production of literature. After journeying in Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands, he was attached in 1835 to the Arctic expedition of the Recherche; and after a couple of years at Rennes as professor of foreign literature, he visited (1842) Russia, (1845) Syria, (1846) Algeria, (1848–1849) North America and South America, and numerous volumes from his pen were the result.
Henri Storck was a Belgian author, filmmaker and documentarist.
Philippe Jaccottet is a Francophone poet and translator from the Canton of Vaud, in Switzerland.
Baroness Suzanne Lilar was a Flemish Belgian essayist, novelist, and playwright writing in French. She was the wife of the Belgian Minister of Justice Albert Lilar and mother of the writer Françoise Mallet-Joris and the art historian Marie Fredericq-Lilar.
Pierre Bergounioux is a French writer. He won the 1986 Prix Alain-Fournier for his second novel, Ce pas et le suivant. And in 2002, he won the SGDL literary grand prize for his body of work.
Henry Bauchau was a Belgian psychoanalyst, lawyer, and author of French prose and poetry.
Jean-Marie Klinkenberg is a Belgian linguist and semiotician, professor at the State University of Liège, born in Verviers (Belgium) in 1944. Member of the interdisciplinary Groupe µ. President of the International Association for visual Semiotics.
Jean Grenier was a French philosopher and writer. He taught for a time in Algiers, where he became a significant influence on the young Albert Camus.
Anne Morelli is a Belgian historian of Italian origins, specialized in the history of religions and minorities. She is currently assistant director of the Interdisciplinary center for study of religion and secularism of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), where she is a teacher.
Liliane Wouters was a Belgian poet, playwright, translator, anthologist and essayist.
Roger Munier was a French writer and translator. From 1953, Munier was one of the first to translate into French the work of his master and friend, the German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889–1976).
Geneviève Hasenohr is a French philologist and prolific scholar of medieval and Renaissance French literature. She has authored or contributed to more than forty books, written at least fifty academic articles and reviews, and prepared numerous scholarly editions.
Jean-Philippe Warren is a Canadian sociologist from Quebec.
Frédéric Jacques Temple was a French poet and writer. His work includes poems, novels, travel stories and essays.
Events in the year 1841 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1844 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1861 in Belgium.
The Société des douze was scholarly and literary dining club in Brussels.
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