Life

Hugo Maurice Julien Claus was a Belgian. Hugo Claus was born on 5 April 1929 at Sint-Janshospitaal in Bruges, Belgium. Hugo Claus had Alzheimer's and decided to terminate his life by euthanasia at the Middelheim Ziekenhuis. Hugo Claus was educated in a boarding school.

Literary career

Apart from being an producer and poet, he was an writer of stories, novels, film scripts, libretti and plays an artist and a translator. He won more than forty literary prizes. He wrote the most in Dutch he also wrote some poetry in English.

Prizes

• o   1952 — Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord for De Metsiers
• o   1964 — August Beernaertprize for De verwondering
• o   1965 — Henriëtte Roland Holst-prize for all his plays
• o   1967 — Edmond Hustinxprize for all his plays
• o   1979 — Constantijn Huygens Prize
• o   1985 — Cestoda-prize
• o   1986 — Herman Gorterprize for Alibi
• o   1986 — Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren
• o   1994 — Prijs voor Meesterschap
• o   1994 — VSB Poëzieprize for De Sporen
• o   1997 — Libris Prize for De Geruchten
• o   1998 — Aristeion Prize for De Geruchten
• o   2000 — Premio Nonino
  • o   Karel Appel, Painter, 1963 (Karel Appel, Schilder, 1964)

Bibliography

Prose:

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  • The Duck Hunt, 1955 (De Metsiers, 1950)
  • Sister of Earth, 1970 (De Metsiers, 1950)
  • The Sorrow of Belgium, 1990 (Het verdriet van België, 1983)

Poetry:

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  • With Karel Appel: Love Song, 1963 (written in English)
  • Four Flemish Poets: Hugo Claus, Gust Gils, Paul Snoek, Hugues C. Pernath / edited by Peter Nijmeijer. (1976)
  • With Pierre Alechinsky and Karel Appel: Two-brush paintings: Their poems by Hugo Claus, 1980 (Zwart, 1978)

Theatre:

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  • Friday, 1972 (Vrijdag, 1968)
  • Four Works for the Theatre, 1980

Essay:

Source

Internet

Hugo Claus, last modified on 31 January 2013 at 12:04.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Claus)

Hugo Claus.

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Artikel

Hugo Claus, One of Belgium’s Most Renowned Authors, Dies at 78, The New York times, March 25, 2008

(http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/books/25claus.html?_r=0&adxnnl=1&ref=obituaries&adxnnlx=1361181639-ez8v5JmCNBOrLOz+mXOzvA)

Author Claus dies by euthanasia, Friday, 21 March 2008, 13:43 GMT.

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7308618.stm)