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Marc Quaghebeur
Marc Quaghebeur (born Tournai, 1947) is a Belgian poet and essayist. He is director of the Archives and Museum of Literature in Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss .... He has a truly Belgian surname. It derives from Dutch Kwagebeur and has been adapted to the French spelling tradition. Bibliography ;Essays * 1982 : ''Balises pour l’histoire de nos lettres'', Brussels, Promotion des Lettres. * 1990 : ''Lettres belges. Entre absence et magie'', Labor * 1990 : ''Un pays d'irréguliers'' Labor. Collaboration de Jean-Pierre Verheggen et V. Jago-Antoine * 1990 : ''Vivre à la mort, parler, n'être rien, être personne. Une lecture de "Oui" de Thomas Bernhard'', Actes Sud * 1993 : ''Belgique : la première des littératures francophones non françaises'', Akademis ...
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Tournai
Tournai or Tournay ( ; ; nl, Doornik ; pcd, Tornai; wa, Tornè ; la, Tornacum) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. It lies southwest of Brussels on the river Scheldt. Tournai is part of Eurometropolis Lille–Kortrijk–Tournai, which had 2,155,161 residents in 2008. Tournai is one of the oldest cities in Belgium and has played an important role in the country's cultural history. It was the first capital of the Frankish Empire, with Clovis I being born here. Geography Tournai is located in the Picardy Wallonia and Romance Flanders region of Belgium, at the southern limit of the Flemish plain, in the basin of the River Scheldt (''Escaut'' in French, ''Schelde'' in Dutch). Administratively, the town is part of the Province of Hainaut, itself part of Wallonia. It is also a municipality that is part of the French-speaking Community of Belgium. Tournai has its own arrondissements, both administrative and judicial. Its area of ma ...
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Brussels
Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium. The Brussels-Capital Region is located in the central portion of the country and is a part of both the French Community of Belgium and the Flemish Community, but is separate from the Flemish Region (within which it forms an enclave) and the Walloon Region. Brussels is the most densely populated region in Belgium, and although it has the highest GDP per capita, it has the lowest available income per household. The Brussels Region covers , a relatively small area compared to the two other regions, and has a population of over 1.2 million. The five times larger metropolitan area of Brusse ...
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Jean-Pierre Verheggen
Jean-Pierre Verheggen (6 June 1942 – 8 November 2023) was a Belgian author and poet. Biography Born in Gembloux on 6 June 1942, Verheggen began contributing to ' in the 1970s alongside . He was also a French teacher at the Athénée Royal de Gembloux for the first three years of secondary education. In 1990, he was an advisor to Minister of Culture Bernard Anselme. Verheggen's works centered around oral poetry and humor, with images of cruelty, voluptuousness, politics, social issues, and linguistics. The ''Alphabet des lettres françaises de Belgique'' commented on his poetry, saying "His poetry is above all a parody of poetry, a radical critique of the ideology that this genre conveys and a burlesque pastiche of its conventions. From there, in 1968 he developed the concept of rewriting and applied its effects to broader fields of investigation, ranging from comics to the most stereotypical political language, including the perversion of a language by another, in this case cl ...
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Paul Aron
Paul Aron (born 4 February 2004) is an Estonian racing driver currently set to race in the 2023 FIA Formula 3 Championship with Prema Racing. He previously competed in the Formula Regional European Championship for Prema in 2021 and 2022, in which he ended both series in third. Aron is part of the Mercedes Junior Team. He also won the rookie cup in the 2019 Italian F4 Championship and placed third in the regular standings. Career Karting Starting in Estonia at the age of 8, Aron climbed the karting ladder as he was soon racing all over Europe but mostly in Italy. Aron won the CIK-FIA Karting European Championship in 2018. Lower formulae Aron raced in the 2019 ADAC Formula 4 Championship for Prema Powerteam, he finished seventh in the championship with two podiums both of which were wins in Austria and the Netherlands. Aron's more successful campaign in 2019 came in the Italian F4 Championship, also racing for Prema, he took eight podiums and two wins, one of which also c ...
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Peter Lang (maison D'édition)
Peter Lang may refer to: *Peter Lang (actor) (1859–1932), American actor *Peter Lang (guitarist) (born 1948), American musician * Peter Lang (politician) (born 1950), Canadian Member of Parliament * Peter Lang (sailor, born 1963) (born 1963), German sailor * Peter Lang (sailor, born 1989) (born 1989), Danish sailor *Peter Lang (swimmer) (born 1958), German Olympic swimmer * Peter Läng (born 1986), Thai-Swiss footballer for FC Schaffhausen *Peter Redford Scott Lang (1850–1926), Scottish mathematician *Peter Lang (publisher), academic publisher See also *Peter Lange Peter Reid Lange (born 1944) is a New Zealand ceramicist. His late brother was David Lange, former New Zealand prime minister. Since the 1980s, Lange has been a leading figure in the New Zealand ceramics and pottery scene. As Dan Chapell writ ...
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Belgian Writers In French
Belgian may refer to: * Something of, or related to, Belgium * Belgians, people from Belgium or of Belgian descent * Languages of Belgium, languages spoken in Belgium, such as Dutch, French, and German *Ancient Belgian language, an extinct language formerly spoken in Gallia Belgica *Belgian Dutch or Flemish, a variant of Dutch *Belgian French, a variant of French *Belgian horse (other), various breeds of horse *Belgian waffle, in culinary contexts * SS ''Belgian'', a cargo ship in service with F Leyland & Co Ltd from 1919 to 1934 *''The Belgian'', a 1917 American silent film See also * *Belgica (other) Gallia Belgica was a province of the Roman Empire in present-day Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Belgica may also refer to: Places * Belgica Glacier, Antarctica * Belgica Guyot, an undersea tablemount off Antarctica * Belgica Mountain ... * Belgic (other) {{Disambiguation ...
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