Willem Elsschot

Willem Elsschot is the pen name of Alfons de Ridder, born in Antwerp on 7 May 1882 into a family of bakers. A graduate of the Higher Institute of Commerce in his native city in 1904, he worked in Paris for a South American businessman, then in the Netherlands. He subsequently ran his own advertising agency until the end of his life, a trade he claimed to detest but which kept him alive, since his writing did not feed him. He died in Antwerp on 31 May 1960.

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