Hubert Krains (1862–1934) was a Belgian author.

Life

Born in Brussels, Krains became a member of the

Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique The Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique - Royal Academy of French Language and Literature of Belgium - or ARLLFB is a Belgian institution which brings together personalities who, through their works, writings, l ...

. He wrote essays and became famous with ''Portraits d'écrivains belges'' (1930), a collection of essays on Belgian writers. Krains died in a train accident. A prize is named in his honour.

Works

* "Le pain noir" – short story anthologized in ''À la gloire de la Belgique'', edited by Jan Greshoff (1915), pp. 237–241.
Available on dbnl.org

Honours

* 1924: Commander in the Order of the Crown.

Royal order In Belgium, a Royal Decree (RD) or Royal Order () (Dutch), Arrêté Royal (French), or Königlicher Erlass (German) is a federal governmental decree exercising legislation, or powers the legislature has delegated to the King as secondary legisla ...

of 21 July 1924.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Krains, Hubert 1862 births 1934 deaths 19th-century Belgian writers 20th-century Belgian writers Commanders of the Order of the Crown (Belgium) Members of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique