Hugo Raes

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Hugo Leonard Siegfried Raes (born May 26, 1929 in Antwerp , Belgium ; died September 23, 2013 there ) was a Flemish writer.

Life

Raes was the first child of church teacher Camiel Raes and Jeanne Raes, née Camerlynck. At the age of four he began to suffer from severe asthma attacks , which is why the family lived four months a year in the countryside in Sint-Antonius near Brecht . In 1939 the family moved to Antwerp and Raes attended the Koninklijk Atheneum there from 1942 . When he was 14 years old, the asthma disappeared. In 1944, his father died at the age of 40, which left Raes deeply shaken and shaped.

In 1949 Raes was called up for military service. He worked as a translator in Brussels, where he met Fernand Auwera and Jan Christiaens. The following year the three take part in the founding of De Nevelvlek , an avant-garde artist group under the direction of Frans Buyens, and the following year Raes took over the chairmanship of the association. As the economic situation was bad, Raes trained as a teacher in Dutch, English and German in 1952, but it took years before he got a permanent position. In the novel Een faun met kille horentjes (German as a faun with cold croissants ) , he processed his experiences with the classroom situation, which was experienced as depressing . In 1953 he married his childhood friend Josette Tillemans. A son was born the following year, a daughter in 1957, and divorced in 1963. Two years later he married the kindergarten teacher Marie-Thérèse Vandebotermet.

Rae's first volume of poetry Jagen en gejaagd was published in 1954 and the second, Afro-europees, in 1957 . As a result, Raes turned from poetry to prose. In 1957 he published Links van de helikopterlijn , a collection of fantastic stories, followed in 1962 by the autobiographical novel De vadsige koningen . In 1966 he got a permanent position as a teacher in the Antwerp district of Merksem, at the same time he was editor and editor of the literary magazines Het Cahier , Gard Sivik , De Vlaamse Gids , Podium and Nieuw Vlaams Tijdschrift . After receiving a two-year writing grant from the Ministry of Culture in 1970, he was only able to write during this time. In 1973, however, a renewed scholarship was not approved and Raes began working part-time as a teacher again. In 1977 he finally left the teaching profession and became an employee of the Ministry of Pensions.

Large parts of Rae's work can be attributed to the fantastic , on the one hand being in the tradition of the Flemish fantasies, on the other hand also taking up forms of Anglo-Saxon science fiction . His books have been translated into German, French, Romanian, Polish and Slovenian. One of the novels translated into German is Club der Testspersonen ( De Lotgevallen in the original ), a nightmarish story in which a family outing in a terrible future world with monsters, mutants and frightening machines ends.

In 2007 the literary Kring Hugo Raes was founded. The literary circle meets twice a year and is dedicated to keeping the work of Raes in memory. Raes died in 2013 at the age of 84 in a care home in Antwerp. The estate is in the Letterenhuis in Antwerp.

Awards and recognitions

  • 1968: Bankroet van een charmeur is named “Best Book of 1967” at the Nederlandse Boekenweek
  • 1969: Lucy B. and CW van der Hoogtprijs for the novel De lotgevallen
  • 1970: two-year author's grant from the Ministry of Culture
  • 1972: Prijs van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Taal en Letterkunde for Reizigers in de anti-tijd
  • 1973: Dirk Martensprijs from the city of Aalst for Het smaran
  • 1975: Prijs van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap voor Proza for Het smaran

bibliography

Novels and collections
  • Jagen en hunted (1954, poems)
  • Afro-europees (1957, poems)
  • Links van de helikopterlijn (1957, short stories)
  • De vadsige Koningen (1961)
  • Een tijdelijk monument (1962, short stories)
  • Hemel en dier (1964)
  • Een faun met kille horentjes (1966, novel)
    • English: A faun with cold croissants. Translated by Jürgen Hillner. Melzer, Darmstadt 1968.
  • Bankroet van een charmeur (1967, short stories)
  • De lotgevallen (1968, novel)
    • German: Club of the test subjects. Translated by Jürgen Hillner. Melzer, Darmstadt 1969.
  • Reizigers in de anti-tijd: Een Poging tot Verkenning, tot Lijfsbehoud (1970, novel)
  • Explosion (1972)
  • Het smaran (1973)
  • De Vlaamse Reus (1974, short stories)
  • Brandstichting against de tijd (1976)
  • Trapezenwerk in het luchtledige (1976)
  • De verwoesting van Hyperion (1978, novel)
  • Verzamelde verhalen (1979, short stories)
  • Het jarenspel (1981)
  • De Goudwaterbron (1986)
  • De Gektewind (1988)
  • De strik (1988)
  • De Spaanse sjaal (1989)
  • Verhalen (1998, short stories)
  • An aquarel van de tijd (2001)
Short stories (science fiction)
  • De Disintegratie (1957)
  • De Schildpad (1957)
  • De Morgen (1961)
  • De Kanker (1962)
  • Een Zonsopgang (1963)
    • German: A sunrise. In: Maxim Jakubowski (Ed.): Quasar 2. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Bestseller # 22019, 1980, ISBN 3-404-22019-6 .
  • De Klok met Zes Wijzers (1974)
  • De Vlaamse Reus (1976)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b obituary , accessed on July 1, 2018.
  2. ↑ Dirk Martensprijs , accessed on July 1, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Raes, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raes, Hugo Leonard Siegfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Flemish writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH 23rd September 2013
Place of death Antwerp , Belgium