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Stefan Hertmans

Born

in Gent, Belgium

March 31, 1951

Website

http://www.stefanhertmans.be/sh/

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Essay

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Stefan Hertmans is a Flemish Belgian author, poet and essayist. He is the author of a literary and essayistic oeuvre - including poetry, novels, essays, plays, short stories. His poetry has been translated into various languages and he has taught at the Ghent Secondary Art Institute and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. He has given lectures at the Sorbonne University, the universities of Vienna, Berlin and Mexico City, the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. and University College London. His work has been published in The literary Review (Madison) The Review of contemporary fiction (Illinois) and Grand Street (New York). He was awarded the ECI Literatuurprijs and the Golden Book Owl Audience Award for War and Turpentine, a novel Stefan Hertmans is a Flemish Belgian author, poet and essayist. He is the author of a literary and essayistic oeuvre - including poetry, novels, essays, plays, short stories. His poetry has been translated into various languages and he has taught at the Ghent Secondary Art Institute and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. He has given lectures at the Sorbonne University, the universities of Vienna, Berlin and Mexico City, the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. and University College London. His work has been published in The literary Review (Madison) The Review of contemporary fiction (Illinois) and Grand Street (New York). He was awarded the ECI Literatuurprijs and the Golden Book Owl Audience Award for War and Turpentine, a novel based on his grandfather's notebooks recollecting his time before, during and after the First World War.

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Stefan Hertmans is een Belgisch schrijver, dichter en essayist.

Hij is auteur van een literair en essayistisch oeuvre (poëzie, roman, essay, theatertekst, kortverhaal) dat hem in binnen- en buitenland bekend maakt. Zijn gedichten en verhalen verschenen in het Frans, Spaans, Italiaans, Roemeens, Kroatisch, Duits, Bulgaars. Hertmans doceerde aan het Stedelijk Secundair Kunstinstituut Gent en de Koninklijke Academie voor Schone kunsten (KASK, Hogeschool Gent) en leidde er het Studium Generale tot oktober 2010. Hij gaf lezingen aan de Sorbonne, de universiteiten van Wenen, Berlijn en Mexico City, Library of Congress (Washington), University College London. Zijn werk verscheen onder meer in The literary Review (Madison) The Review of contemporary fiction (Illinois) en Grand Street (New York). Hertmans werkte mee aan tijdschriften zoals Raster, De Revisor, Het Moment, NWT, Yang, Dietsche Warande & Belfort, Poëziekrant en Parmentier. Van 1993 tot 1996 was hij redacteur van het Nederlandse tijdschrift De Gids, hij recenseerde voor De Morgen en schreef de boekenbijlage van De Standaard. In Nederland publiceerde hij in Trouw.

In 2017 werd hij Commandeur in de Kroonorde.
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Average rating: 3.86 · 13,118 ratings · 1,462 reviews · 58 distinct works • Similar authors

	War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans, David McKay (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.91 avg rating — 8,401 ratings — published 2013 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De bekeerlinge 3.93 avg rating — 2,964 ratings — published 2016 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De opgang 3.95 avg rating — 607 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Naar Merelbeke 3.24 avg rating — 275 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Antigone in Molenbeek 3.59 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 2017 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De blinde stoker van de hamam van Fez 3.24 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harder dan sneeuw 2.49 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De mobilisatie van Arcadia 3.51 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Het verborgen weefsel 3.12 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Als op de eerste dag: roman in verhalen 3.19 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“o het is veel
te vroeg om al
te laat te zijn”
― Stefan Hertmans, de val van vrije dagen

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“Wind koelt de kleuren van de nacht.”
― Stefan Hertmans

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“Their dark forms are larger than life, because memories like that grow along with your body, so that adults from our childhood always resemble an extinct race of old gods, still towering over us.”
― Stefan Hertmans

tags: childhood, childhood-memories, memory

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