Hugo Claus

Hugo Claus was born in Bruges on 5 April 1929, the son of the printer Jozef Claus. A boarder with nuns at Aalbeke from 1933 to 1939, he left the family home in 1946 and lived in Paris from 1950 to 1953, close to the Cobra group. A poet, novelist, author of more than sixty plays, painter and filmmaker, he was convicted in 1968 of public indecency because of a play, a sentence commuted to a suspended one after a public protest. He received the Prize for Dutch Letters in 1986 and died in Antwerp on 19 March 2008.

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• NovelThe Sorrow of BelgiumHet verdriet van BelgiëHugo Claus · 1983Literature