Henri Paul René Ceuppens (8 January 1923 – 7 October 2012), who wrote under the

pseudonym A pseudonym (; ) or alias () is a fictitious name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true name (orthonym). This also differs from a new name that entirely or legally replaces an individua ...

Ivo Michiels, was a

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writer.

Biography

Michiels was born in

Mortsel Mortsel () is a city and municipality close to the city of Antwerp located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality only comprises the city of Mortsel proper. In 2021, Mortsel had a total population of 26,170 people. The total area is ...

. During World War II he was employed as a nurse in a hospital in

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in Germany. He worked as a laboratory assistant for a while, and from 1948 up to 1957 he worked as a journalist at ''Het Handelsblad''. In 1965, he married Christiane Faes. From 1957 up to 1978 he worked at the publisher ''Ontwikkeling'' (E: Development). From 1959 until 1983 he was editor, and editorial secretary of the ''Nieuw Vlaams Tijdschrift''. From 1966 up to 1978 he also taught at the ''Hoger Rijksinstituut voor Toneel- en Cultuurspreiding'' 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 ...

. In 1979, he established himself as a full-time writer in the

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List of works

* ''Begrensde verten'' (1946, poetry) * ''Daar tegenover'' (1947, poetry) * ''Zo, ga dan'' (1947, novelle) * ''Het vonnis'' (1949, novel) * ''Kruistocht der jongelingen'' (1951, novel) * ''Spaans capriccio'' (1952, short storie) * ''De ogenbank'' (1953, novel) * ''De meeuwen sterven in de haven'' (1955, novel, films cenario), made into a film of the same name in 1956 * ''Het afscheid'' (1957, novel) * ''Journal brut, Ikjes sprokkelen'' (1958, novel) * ''Albisola Mare, Savona'' (1959, novel) * ''Dertien Vlamingen'' (1961, bloemlezing) * ''Het boek Alfa'' (1963, novel) * ''Frans Dille'' (1963, essay) * ''Antwerpen, stad aan de stroom'' (tekst bij fotoalbum van F. Tas) (1965) * ''Verhalen uit Journal brut'' (1966) * ''Het afscheid'' (1966, film scenario) * ''Orchis militaris'' (1968, novel) * ''Exit'' (1971, novel) * ''Jef Verheyen'', 40 (1972, bibliophile edition) * ''Alechinsky'' (1973, essay) * ''Samuel, o Samuel'' (1973, radio play) * ''Dieric Bouts'' (1975, film scenario) * ''Een tuin tussen hond en wolf'' (1977, novel, film scenario) * ''Itinerarium'' (1979, essay) * ''Dixi''(''t'') (1979, novel) * ''Luister hoe dit beeld hoe die lijn hoe die kleur hoe dit vlak luister'' (1979, essays) * ''Een letterwerker aan het woord'' (1980) * ''De vrouwen van de aarstengel'' (1983, novel) * ''De toverberg in Sank Seb'' (1984, uit "De vrouwen van de aartsengel", in "Vlaamse verhalen na 1965") * ''Het boek der nauwe relaties'' (1985) * ''Vlaanderen, ook een land'' (1987) * ''Prima materia'' (1989) * ''Ondergrond bovengronds'' (1991) * ''Schildwacht schuldwacht'' (1993) * ''Daar komen schervan van'' (1995) * ''Sissi'' (1997) * ''De verrukking'' (1999, novel) * ''De mirakelen, Elizabeth, de mirakelen'' (?)

Awards

* 1958 –

Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord The Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord (Ark Prize of the Free Word) is a symbolic award created in 1951 by Herman Teirlinck and the editorial team of the ''Nieuw Vlaams Tijdschrift'' (New Flemish magazine) to counteract ideologically driven restrictions ...

for ''Het afscheid''. * 1977 – Prijs van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap voor Proza—then named ''Driejaarlijkse Staatsprijs voor verhalend proza''—for ''Een tuin tussen hond en wolf'' * 1990 – Emile Bernheim-prijs for his works * 1993 – Prijs van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap * 2012 – America Award from The Contemporary Arts Educational Project "for his lifetime contribution to international writing". Previous winners of this "alternatif

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" were, amongst others,

Harold Pinter Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanne ...

(1995),

Peter Handke Peter Handke (; born 6 December 1942) is an Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored t ...

(2002),

José Saramago José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE ComSE GColCa (; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010), was a Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony ith which heco ...

(2004) en

Javier Marías Javier Marías Franco (20 September 1951 – 11 September 2022) was a Spanish author, translator, and columnist. Marías published fifteen novels, including '' A Heart So White'' (''Corazón tan blanco,'' 1992'')'' and '' Tomorrow in the Battle ...

(2010)

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