Bernard Dewulf

Bernard Dewulf (born January 30, 1960 in Brussels ) is a Flemish poet , essayist , columnist , journalist , dramaturge and art connoisseur.

biography

Bernard Dewulf studied German Philology and works as a journalist.

poet

Dewulf published his first poems in various literary magazines in the 1980s. In 1987, Twist met ons appeared , an anthology by several authors (Dirk van Bastelaere, Charles Ducal and Erik Spinoy), in which he was represented with nine poems. This collection of poems achieved the status of a manifesto in the poetic history of Flanders, because the postmodern generation of the young poets represented here was loud and challenging in confrontation with the complacency and mediocrity of Flemish poetry up until then. Dewulf's first own volume of poetry Waar de egel gaat was published in 1995, a second, Blauwziek , twelve years later, in 2007.

Editor and columnist

Dewulf worked with Frank Albers from 1998 to 2000 as main editor of the magazine Nieuw Wereldtijdschrift and later as a columnist for De Morgen (front page). For many years he was responsible for the culture and book supplement Café des Arts for De Morgen . In 2009 Dewulf was dismissed from the newspaper De Morgen along with twelve other employees for reasons of rationalization . He is currently a columnist for the weekly magazine of the Belgian newspaper De Standaard and an employee of the Dutch evening newspaper NRC Handelsblad . In 2006 a selection of Dewulf's columns was published under the title Loerhoek .

Essayist, art connoisseur, novelist

The essay collection Bijlichtingen: kijken naar schilders was published in 2001 . This book contains reflections (cheering) on ​​visual artists. A second collection of essays followed in Naderingen. Kijken en zoeken naar schilders (2007) with texts on plastic art . Dewulf published further collections of essays and art studies in 2012 and 2014.

For the novella Kleine Dagen (2008) he received the renowned Libris Literature Prize in 2010 and the Inktaap the following year .

City poet

From January 2012 to January 2014 Dewulf was the official city poet (stadsdichter) of Antwerp .

Dramaturge and translator

Dewulf transferred in 2006 for the theater company De Roovers that of Ted Hughes edited classical drama Alcestis of Euripides into Flemish. In 2009 the artistic director of the city theater in Ghent asked him if he wanted to work as a dramaturge for the theater company NTGent , and Dewulf agreed. In 2011, NTGent brought the play The bitter tears of Petra von Kant by Rainer Werner Fassbinder to the stage in a translation by Dewulf . In October 2012 the play Een lolita premiered , which Dewulf wrote at the request of director Julie Van den Berghe (NTGent) and which is based in small parts on the scandalous novel Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov . Dewulf reworked his novella Kleine Dagen for a theatrical reading . Accompanied by video images, music and drawings, Dewulf will perform his work on stage in 2012/2013 and also in 2016.

bibliography

Essays and reflections

• 2001: Bijlichtingen. Kijken naar schilders (reflections), Atlas Contact, 199 pages, ISBN 978-90-450-0593-5 .
• 2007: Naderingen. Kijken & zoeken naar schilders (essays, picture descriptions), Atlas Contact, 224 pp. ISBN 978-90-450-0021-3 .
• 2012: Verstrooiingen over kijken en zien , (essays, picture descriptions), Atlas Contact, 221 p., ISBN 978-90-254-3943-9 .
• 2012: Trekvogels in de mist. De Nieuwjaarslezingen Vol. 1. Van Het zoekend hert , (New Year's readings from the philosophy house Het zoekend hert ), Verlag Luster Berchem, Antwerp 2011, 48 pages, ISBN 978-94-6058-097-0 .
• 2014: Toewijdingen. Verzamelde beschouwingen (essays), Atlas / Contact Amsterdam / Antwerpen, 560 p., ISBN 978-90-450-2734-0 .

Stories and short stories

• 2009: Small ones. Schitterende miniatures over het genot van het alledaagse (novella), Verlag Olympus, 192 S, ISBN 978-90-467-0521-6 .

Poems

• 1995: Waar de egel gaat , Verlag Atlas Contact, 52 p., ISBN 978-90-254-1203-6 .
• 2006: Blauwziek , Verlag Atlas Contact, 62 pages, ISBN 978-90-450-1595-8 .

Plays

• 2012: Kleine dagen , Verlag Atlas Contact, ISBN 978-90-450-2009-9 .
• 2013: Een Lolita , Verlag Voetnoot, 80 pages, ISBN 978-94-91738-01-2 .

Novels

• 2006: Loerhoek. Verlag Atlas, 429 pp., ISBN 978-90-450-1381-7 .

Awards

• 1996: Flemish Debut Prize (Vlaamse Debuutprijs) for Waar de egel gaat
• 2007: Saint Amourprijs voor Goede Seks for Loerhoek
• 2008: Dirk Martens Literatuurprijs of the city of Aalst for Naderingen, kijken en zoeken naar schilders
• 2010: Libris Literature Prize for Little Dages
• 2011: De Inktaap for his novella Kleine Dagen
• 2013: De Taalunie Toneelschrijfprijs for Een Lolita

Nominations

• 2006: Herman de Coninck Prize for Blauwziek
• 2007: Gouden Uil (longlist) for Loerhoek

Web links

• Bernard Dewulf , at Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren (DBNL)
• Weekly column SI & LA by Dewulf [3] in De Standaard .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On the biography see: [1] , in: schrijversgewijs.be (Dutch)
2. ↑ side of the column Bernard Dewuls [2] in De Standaard
3. ↑ Information on NTGent and Dewulf at this theater Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Homepage of the theater 
4. ↑ Jury report on winning the Libris Literature Prize - ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , May 10, 2010 
5. ↑ Press release Goede week voor: Bernard Dewulf - ( Memento of the original from August 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Express Business, May 11, 2010