Jan van Nijlen

Jan van Nijlen was born in Antwerp on 10 November 1884. A bookshop employee and then a journalist, he took refuge in the Netherlands in 1914, where he became friends with the poets of his generation and from then on published almost all his work. Back in Belgium in 1919, he joined the translation service of the Ministry of Justice, which he left in 1949 with the rank of director. He lived at many successive addresses in Uccle and Forest, and died in Forest on 14 August 1965.

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• PoetryGeheimschriftJan van Nijlen · 1934not translated into EnglishLiterature