Gust van Brussel

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Gust van Brussel (born September 12, 1924 in Antwerp ; died May 20, 2015 ) was a Flemish writer and poet.

Life

Van Brussel grew up in Luchtbal , a district in the north of Antwerp. He was 14 when his parents became wealthy through an inheritance and moved to the villa Les chèvresfeuilles in Edegem . In the neighborhood there he met his future wife Monique. He had to interrupt an old language study he had started because of the Second World War. After the war he started working at De Generale Bank and stayed there until 1984, most recently as head of the public relations department.

In 1957 he made his debut with the two volumes of poetry Akhenaten. Poems uit Amarna and Groot Verzenboek , another volume followed in 1959, Zwaarmoedige en Luchthartig Ritmen . His first novel, De visioenen van Jacques Weiniger , appeared in 1960. In the following decades van Brussel published over 40 novels, short stories and volumes of poetry, including some from the field of science fiction .

After his retirement he made regular trips, including to Italy. In 1987 he and his wife settled in Montpellier , France, where they were diagnosed with cancer in 1992. When he finally returned to Belgium in 1999, he was almost forgotten in the literary scene. In the following years he published mainly in the small publisher De Graal .

In 2007 his wife died, with whom he had 12 children.

Van Brussel was a member of the Vlaamse Vereniging van Letterkundigen (VVL) and a member and temporarily chairman of the Marnixring Antwerp . Both associations honored him on the occasion of his 90th birthday in 2014 at a ceremony in Antwerp City Hall.

Works

  • Akhenaten. Poems uit Amarna (1957, poems)
  • Groot Verzenboek (1957, poems)
  • Zwaarmoedige en Luchthartig Ritmen (1959, poems)
  • De visioenen van Jacques Weiniger (1960, novel)
  • Sprik sprak sproke, Ons Lekenspel (1962, fairy tale)
  • Oasis (1963, poems)
  • Het labyrinth (1966, novel)
  • Voor Plymouth belvédère (1966, novel)
  • Cassandra en de calebas. Analysis van een innerlijk avontuur (1966, novel)
  • Voor een Plymouth Belvedere (1967, novel)
  • De ring (1969, SF novel)
  • Het imperium (1977, SF story)
  • A Night with Aphrodite (1979)
  • Verlaten landschap (1980, SF novel)
  • The Secret of Merodak (1981, book for young people)
  • Vader van huwbare Dochters (1982, novel)
  • Vertel eens een sprookje (1983, fairy tale)
  • De waanzinnige stad (1984, SF novel)
  • De abortus (1985, novel)
  • Anton, mijn Anton jij was onsterfelijk (1986, novella)
  • Een traditie met toekomst (1986, company history of Generale Bank Antwerp)
  • Het terras (1987, novel)
  • De salamandereters (1988, short story)
  • Vader van rebelse zonen (1989, novel)
  • Antwerp mijn Ran (1993, poems)
  • Poëzie (1997, poems)
  • Troubadour op daughter: verzamelde poems (1998, poetry)
  • Marked in de schaduw van een eeuwenoude taxus (2000, poems)
  • Echo op mijn tuinpad, poems en grafiek (2000, poems)
  • Oud-Turnhoutse Jaargetijden: bucolic rijmen (2001, poems)
  • The Turning Bridges (2001, poems)
  • De Atlantica Kroniek (2001, novel)
  • De Sus: een Antwerps volksverhaal (2002, novel, new edition 2004 as Sus, de ongekroonde koning van de Vogelenmarkt: een Antwerps volksverhaal )
  • Sus Antigoon: Antwerps volksverhaal (2005, short story)
  • Keizer Sus den Eerste: volksverhaal (2006, short story)
  • De Atlantica Kroniek (2003, SF novel)
  • De helm van Parsival (2004, novel)
  • Het laatste fresco (2009, novel)
  • De cyclamenman (2010, novel)
  • Als de paradijsvogel (2012, poems)
  • Het onbereikbare licht (2014, poems)
  • De gestolde echo (2015, poems)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.dewereldmorgen.be/foto/2010/10/20/huldiging-gust-van-brussel-op-antwerps-stadhuis
personal data
SURNAME Brussel, Gust van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Flemish writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 2015