Ivo Michiels
Ivo Michiels | |
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| Born | Henri Ceuppens 8 January 1923 Mortsel, Belgium |
| Died | 7 October 2012 (aged 89)[1] Le Barroux, France |
| Pen name | Ivo Michiels |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality |  Belgium |
| Notable works | Seagulls Die in the Harbour |
| Notable awards | Ark Prize of the Free Word 1958 |
Henri Paul René Ceuppens (8 January 1923 – 7 October 2012), who wrote under the pseudonym Ivo Michiels, was a Belgian writer.[1]
Biography
[edit]Michiels was born in Mortsel. During World War II he was employed as a nurse in a hospital in Lübeck 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. In 1979, he established himself as a full-time writer in the Vaucluse (France). He died, aged 89, in Le Barroux.
List of works
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 1958 – Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord 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 Nobel Prize in Literature" were, amongst others, Harold Pinter (1995), Peter Handke (2002), José Saramago (2004) en Javier Marías (2010)
See also
[edit]- Flemish literature
- Woman Between Wolf and Dog
- "Contemporary Dutch and Flemish Short Stories/ Ivo Michiels", Radio Netherlands Archives
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Ivo Michiels overleden – De Standaard". Standaard.be. 30 April 2009. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ivo Michiels.
- Ivo Michiels at IMDb
- Ivo Michiels Archived 8 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- Ivo Michiels
Categories:
- 1923 births
- 2012 deaths
- Flemish poets
- People from Mortsel
- 20th-century Belgian novelists
- 21st-century Belgian novelists
- Belgian male novelists
- Belgian male short story writers
- Belgian short story writers
- 20th-century Belgian poets
- Belgian male poets
- 20th-century Belgian screenwriters
- Belgian essayists
- 20th-century short story writers
- 21st-century short story writers
- 20th-century essayists
- 21st-century essayists
- 20th-century Belgian male writers
- 21st-century Belgian male writers
- Belgian nurses
- Belgian male screenwriters