biography
pronunciation:
[lampoh]
| sex:
| male
|
| lived:
| (1920– )
|
| biography:
| Flemish writer, born in Antwerp, N Belgium. Before engaging in full-time writing he worked as a teacher, art critic, and inspector of public libraries. Regarded as a leading exponent of Magic Realism, a literary movement related to Surrealism, in his early psychological novels a fascination with irrational, obscure relations is already tangible. In his later novels, Terugkeer naar Atlantis (1953, Return to Atlantis) and De komst van Joachim Stiller (1960, The Coming of Joachim Stiller), his style is almost fully in the vein of Magic Realism, linking ordinary elements with dream-like sequences, suggesting relations which cannot be rationally explained. A prolific writer, he was awarded the Flemish State Prize for fiction in 1962. |
|
|
