Marie Gevers

Marie Gevers was born on 30 December 1883 at the Missembourg estate, in Edegem, near Antwerp, where she spent almost her whole life. She never went to school: her mother taught her herself and taught her French through dictations. Encouraged by Verhaeren, she first published poems, then turned to the novel around 1930. She translated Flemish and Dutch authors into French, including Felix Timmermans. The first woman elected to the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises, in 1938, she received the quinquennial prize for literature in 1960 and died at Missembourg on 9 March 1975.

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• NovelLa Comtesse des diguesMarie Gevers · 1931not translated into EnglishLiterature