Paul van Morckhoven was the

pen name A pen name, also called a ''nom de plume'' or a literary double, is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name. A pen na ...

of Jozef Lode Jozefina Pauwels (1910–1990), a Belgian dramatist and theatre reviewer writing in Dutch.

Biography

Pauwels was born in

Borgerhout Borgerhout () is the smallest district of Antwerp, Belgium. , the district houses 45,769 inhabitants on 3,93 km². It was an independent municipality until January 1983. The postal area code for Borgerhout is 2140. Geography Borgerhout is divided ...

on 25 March 1910 and worked as a school teacher until 1960. From 1956 to 1972 he was chair of the Society of Flemish Playwrights, and from 1952 to 1969 editor of the theatre periodical ''Het toneel''. He died in

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on 11 January 1990.

Works

Plays

* ''Karel van Denemarken'' (1942) * ''Het buitenkansje'' (1955) * ''Bartolomeusnacht'' (1956) * ''De gekroonde laars'' (1975), an adaptation of

Michiel de Swaen Michiel de Swaen (; 20 January 1654 – 3 May 1707) was a surgeon and a rhetorician from the Southern Netherlands. Childhood, schooling and professional life Michiel de Swaen studied at the college of the Jesuits in his native town, where he prob ...

's ''De gecroonde leersse'' (1687) * ''De Datzja'' (1977)

Non-fiction

* ''Het Amerikaans toneel'' (1953) * with Luc André, ''Het hedendaags toneel in België'' (1969) ** in English translation as ''Contemporary Belgian Theatre'' (Brussels, Belgian Information and Documentation Institute, 1970)At Internet Archive
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References

{{morecat, date=November 2020 1910 births 1990 deaths People from Borgerhout 20th-century Belgian dramatists and playwrights Belgian male dramatists and playwrights