Maurice Gilliams

Maurice Gilliams was born in Antwerp on 20 July 1900, the son of the printer Frans Gilliams, in whose workshop he learned the trade of typesetter. In 1955 he became scientific librarian of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, then from 1960 to 1975 was permanent secretary of the Royal Flemish Academy of Language and Literature, in Ghent. His work, made up of poems, narratives and diary pages, received the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 1969 and the Prize for Dutch Letters in 1980. He died in Antwerp on 18 October 1982.

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• NarrativeElias, or The Struggle with the NightingalesElias of het gevecht met de nachtegalenMaurice Gilliams · 1936Literature