Hugo Maurice Julien Claus (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦyˑɣoˑ klɒˑu̯s]; April 5, 1929 – March 19, 2008) was a leading Belgian author, writing primarily in Dutch. He was prominent as a novelist, poet, playwright, painter and film director.
His death by euthanasia, which is legal in Belgium, led to considerable controversy.
Hugo Claus was considered to be one of the most important contemporary Flemish authors . Under the pseudonym Dorothea van Male, he ...
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Hugo Maurice Julien Claus (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦyˑɣoˑ klɒˑu̯s]; April 5, 1929 – March 19, 2008) was a leading Belgian author, writing primarily in Dutch. He was prominent as a novelist, poet, playwright, painter and film director.
His death by euthanasia, which is legal in Belgium, led to considerable controversy.
Hugo Claus was considered to be one of the most important contemporary Flemish authors . Under the pseudonym Dorothea van Male, he published the novel Schola Nostra (1971). He also used the pseudonyms Jan Hyoens and Thea Streiner. In 1983, he published Het verdriet van België ("The Sorrow of Belgium"), which is probably his most famous book.
Claus was also a dramatist. He wrote 35 original pieces and 31 translations from English, Greek, Latin, French, Spanish and Dutch plays and novels.
As a painter, Claus was a participant in the CoBrA art movement from 1950. He had developed friendships with some of its members, and illustrated a book by Pierre Alechinsky in 1949. He...
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