Serge Delaive (born 1965 in Liège,

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) is a

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and

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writing in the French language. His first novel, ''Café Europa'', made a strong impression on critics.see
DOSSIER DE PRESSE – Serge Delaive, Café Europa
(collection of reviews, in French) Additionally, his photographs have been featured in exhibitions in Liège (''CP-CR''), Herstal (''City Museum''), Amay (''Maison de la poésie'') and

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(''Librairie Wallonie-Bruxelles'', ''Librairie Itinéraires''), Asnières and Padova (''Europoems Symposium'').

Published works

Poetry books

*''Légendaire'', Editions Les Eperonniers, coll. Feux, Bruxelles, 1995. *''Monde jumeau'', Editions Les Eperonniers, coll. Feux, Bruxelles, 1996. *''Par l'oeil blessé'', L'Arbre à paroles, Amay, 1997. *''Revolver'', Editions de l'Acanthe, Namur/Bruxelles, 1999. *''Le livre canoë'', Editions de la Différence, coll. Clepsydre, Paris, 2001. *''En rade'', Décharge/Gros textes, coll. Polder n°129, Toucy/Châteauroux-les-Alpes, 2006. *''Les jours'' followed by ''Ici là'', Editions de la Différence, coll. Clepsydre, Paris, 2006 (Marcel Thiry Prize 2007). *''Poèmes sauvages'', Maelström éditions, coll. Bookleg n°30, Bruxelles, 2007. *''Le sexe des boeufs'', Tétras Lyre, coll. Accordéon, Soumagne, 2008, with an original drawing by Robert Varlez. *''Une langue étrangère'', L'Arbre à paroles, Amay, 2008, with an original drawing by Marilu Nordenflycht. *''Art farouche'', Editions de la Différence, coll. Clepsydre, Paris, 2011. *''Meuse fleuve nord'', poem & photographs, Le Tétras Lyre, Liège, 2014. *''La Trilogie Lunus'', anthology, L'Arbre à paroles, Amay, 2015.

Novels

*''Café Europa'', Editions de la Différence, Paris, 2004. (Indications Prize 2005). Paperback : Espace Nord, Bruxelles, 2012. *''L'homme sans mémoire'', Editions de la Différence, Paris, 2008. *''Argentine'', Editions de la Différence, Paris, 2009. (Rossel Prize 2009) Prix Rossel.

Nonfiction

*''Paul Gauguin, étrange attraction'', essay, L'Escampette, Chauvigny, 2011. *''Pourquoi je ne serai pas français'', Maelström, coll. Bookleg N°79, Bruxelles, 2011. *''Herstal'', texts and photographs, Musée de Herstal, Herstal, 2011. *''Carnet de Corée'', travel accounts, texts and photographs, Editions de la Différence, Paris, 2012.

In anthologies and magazines

*''La poésie belge'', by Alain Bosquet in ''Nota Bene'', n° 41-42-43, printemps 1993, Paris, pp. 291–300. *''Hrvatsko Slovo'', newspaper, 19 January 2001, Zagreb, p. 13 * ''La poésie francophone de Belgique'', by

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, Le Cherche Midi éditeur, Paris, 2002, p. 205. *''Poésie1/Vagabondages'', n°29, ''La nouvelle poésie de langue française'', Le Cherche Midi éditeur, 2002, Paris, pp. 34–37. *''Knjinzevna Rijeka'', n°3, 7th year, chapters of ''Le temps du rêve'' translated in Croatian by

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, December 2002, Rijeka, pp. 58–62. *''Encore une journée/Ein Weiterer Tag'', bilingual anthology German/French by

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, Verlag Im Wald, Rimbach, 2002, pp. 54–67. *''Señas de identidad'', bilingual anthology Spanish/French by Sergio Rodriguez, Ediciones Vitruvio, Madrid, 2003, pp. 67–89. *''Ici on parle français & flamand, une fameuse collection de poèmes belges'', by

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, Le Castor Astral, coll. Escales du Nord, 2005, Brussels and Bordeaux, p. 71. *''Ceci n’est pas une poésie, een Belgische-Franstalige anthologie'', by Benno Barnard, uitgeverij Atlas, Amsterdam, 2005, pp. 539–540. *''Europa Erlesen, Zwischen Fels und Nebel'', European anthology by Kevin Perryman et Lojze Wieser, Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt/Celovec, 2006, p. 155. *''Poètes aujourd’hui, un panorama de la poésie francophone de Belgique'', anthology by Liliane Wouters and Yves Namur, Taillis Pré/Le Noroît, Namur/Montreal, 2007. *''L'année poétique 2008'', Seghers, Paris, 2008. *''Bélgica - Seis poetas belgas jóvenes de lengua francesa'', anthology by Laura Calbrese and Alejo Steimberg, Vox Ediciones, Bahía Blanca, Argentina, 2009. *''L'année poétique 2009'', Seghers, Paris, 2009. *''El Jabali'', Buenos Aires, 2009. ...

References

External links

His website

On the website ''Culture, le magazine littéraire de l'Université de Liège''
* http://promethee.philo.ulg.ac.be/engdep1/MotAMot/motfstrt.html Site ''Mot à Mot'' * http://www.bon-a-tirer.com/auteurs/delaive.html On the site ''bon à tirer'' * http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20090717235039/http://www.ladifference.fr/fiches/auteurs/delaive.html On the site of the ''Editions de la Différence'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Delaive, Serge 1965 births Living people Writers from Liège Belgian poets in French Belgian male poets