Angèle Manteau
Angèle Georgette Ghislaine Manteau (born January 24, 1911 in Dinant ; died April 20, 2008 in Aalst ) was a Belgian publisher.
Life
Angèle Manteau's father was a textile manufacturer from Lille , her mother was from Belgium. She studied chemistry for a few semesters at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). In Brussels she made the acquaintance of the writers Jan Greshoff and Aty Brunt and learned the Dutch language. Manteau worked for a publishing company and started her own import trading business in 1932. In 1938 she founded the Manteau publishing house in Brussels .
In the following years up to 1970, the following Dutch-speaking authors were published in your publishing house:
- Piet van Aken , Louis Paul Boon , Hugo Claus , Johan Daisne , Dirk De Witte , Jef Geeraerts , Hubert Lampo , Ward Ruyslinck , Paul Snoek , Herman Teirlinck , Karel van de Woestijne , Jos Vandeloo , August Vermeylen .
Since 1964 she has been assisted in managing the publishing house by the writer Jeroen Brouwers . At the end of the 1970s she left the publishing house, which was continued by Julien Weverbergh , and went to the Elsevier publishing house in Amsterdam .
In the early 1980s she translated works by Emmanuel Bove and Françoise Sagan into Dutch.
Manteau was made a baroness in Belgium in 1986 and accepted into the Dutch Order of Orange-Nassau . In 2003 she was awarded the Golden Pfennig by the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique .
Works (selection)
- with Roger H. Schoemans: Yes, maar mevrouw, deze schrijven Nederlands - Een uitgeefster aan het woord over het boekenvak . Standaard, Antwerp 2000 ISBN 90-02-20996-7 .
- Translations from French
- Emmanuel Bove: Mijn vrienden . De Prom, 1981.
- Emmanuel Bove: Armand . De Prom, 1981.
- Françoise Sagan: De geverfde vrouw , 1981.
- Françoise Sagan: Een roerloos onweer , 1983.
literature
- Julien Weverbergh: De als kameleons uitgedoste oude koeien van Angèle Manteau . Manteau, Antwerp 1981.
- Greta Seghers: Het peculiar leven van Angèle Manteau . Prometheus, Amsterdam 1992, ISBN 9789053331040 .
- Ernst Bruinsma: Kwaliteit as credo. een divorced from Uitgeverij Manteau (1938–1953) . Meulenhoff / Manteau, Antwerp 2005.
- Kevin Absillis: Angèle Manteau and the Indonesian connection. A remarkable story of the Flemish book trade after the Second World War . In: Quaerendo: A journal devoted to manuscripts and printed books, 38 (2008) 4, pp. 346-358.
- Kevin Absillis: Vechten tegen de bierkaai: over het uitgevershuis van Angèle Manteau (1932–1971) . Meulenhoff / Manteau Antwerp, 2009, ISBN 9789085421627 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Angèle Manteau in the bibliographic database WorldCat
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Manteau, Angèle |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Manteau, Angèle Georgette Ghislaine (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian publisher and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dinant |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 2008 |
| Place of death | Aalst |