Christine D'haen (25 October 1923 – 3 September 2009) was a Flemish author and poet. She was born in Sint-Amandsberg and died at Bruges.

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Christine D'haen
Born	(1923-10-25)25 October 1923 Sint-Amandsberg, Belgium
Died	3 September 2009(2009-09-03) (aged 85) Bruges, Belgium
Nationality	Belgian
Occupation	poet, writer

D'haen studied Germanic philology at the University of Ghent and continued her studies in Amsterdam and Edinburgh. She settled in Bruges and became a teacher at high school. She made an inventory of the handwritings of Guido Gezelle while working at the Gezelle archive. She wrote a biography of Guido Gezelle and also translated work of Hugo Claus into English.

In 1958 her first book of poetry, Gedichten 1946-1958 (Poems 1946-1958), was published.

Bibliography

• Gedichten 1946-1958 (1958)
• Vanwaar zal ik u lof toezingen? (1966)
• Gezelle, Poems/Gedichten (1971)
• Ick sluit van daegh een ring (1975)
• Onyx (1983)
• De wonde in 't hert (1988)
• Mirages (1989)
• Zwarte sneeuw (1989)
• Duizend-en-drie (1992)
• Een brokaten brief (1992)
• Merencolie (1992)
• Morgane (1995)
• Een paal, een steen (1996)
• De zoon van de Zon (1997)
• Bérénice (1998)
• Dodecaëder/Dantis meditatio (1998)
• Het geheim dat ik draag (1998)
• Kalkmarkt 6, De stad en Het begin (1999)
• Het huwelijk (novel, 2000)

Awards

• 1951 - Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord
• 1991 - Anna Bijnsprijs of the Dutch literature
• 1992 - Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren

See also

• Flemish literature

References

• Christine D'haen biodata
• P.G. Buckinx, Jaarb. Kon. Acad. v. Nederl. Taal- en Letterk. (1976)
• P. Claes, Kritisch lexicon van de Nederlandstalige literatuur na 1945 (1980)

На других языках

[fr] Christine D'haen