Stijn Streuvels

Stijn Streuvels is the pen name of Frank Lateur, born in Heule on 3 October 1871, the son of a sister of the poet Guido Gezelle. He left school at fourteen and was a baker in Avelgem until 1905, then lived by his pen in Ingooigem. Self-taught, he read French, German, Danish and Norwegian, and translated Tolstoy. His work, nourished by the peasantry of West Flanders, led to his being proposed many times for the Nobel Prize from 1937. He died in Ingooigem on 15 August 1969.

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• NovelDe teleurgang van den WaterhoekStijn Streuvels · 1927not translated into EnglishLiterature