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Born October 9, 1939 (age 87) • Brussels • Belgium
Notable Works “Les Bons Offices”
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Paul Willems
Belgian author
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Suzanne Lilar
Belgian author
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Herman Teirlinck
Flemish author
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Henry Bauchau
Belgian author
Life-sized plaster sculpture Seated Voltaire by Jean-Antoine Houdon shows Voltaire draped in a robe, seated with a thoughtful expression and a ribbon crown, against a dark background.
Voltaire
French philosopher and author
Samuel Beckett, 1965
Samuel Beckett
Irish author
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
French author
Alphonse Daudet
Alphonse Daudet
French author
Mérimée, detail of an engraving after a drawing by A. Devéria, c. 1832
Prosper Mérimée
French author
Aymé, 1967
Marcel Aymé
French author
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Roger Martin du Gard
French author
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Bernard Binlin Dadié
Ivorian author
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Octave Mirbeau
French author
Marmontel, detail of an engraving by Augustin de Saint-Aubin, 1765, after a portrait by C.N. Cochin
Jean-François Marmontel
French author
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Tchicaya U Tam’si
Congolese poet
Hervieu, Paul
Paul Hervieu
French author
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Djibril Tamsir Niane
Guinean historian and writer
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Jules Supervielle
French author
Émile Verhaeren, drawing by Lucien Wolles, c. 1900; in the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels.
Émile Verhaeren
Belgian poet