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Georges Eekhoud

1854 - 1927

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Georges Eekhoud (27 May 1854 – 29 May 1927) was a Belgian novelist of Flemish descent, but writing in French. Eekhoud was a regionalist best known for his ability to represent scenes from rural and urban daily life. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georges Eekhoud has received more than 28,829 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Georges Eekhoud is the 4,308th most popular writer (down from 4,272nd in 2019), the 559th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 533rd in 2019) and the 29th most popular Belgian Writer.

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Notable Works

La faneuse d'amour
2012
Escal-Vigor
Fiction, Middle aged gay men, Young men
The young Count Henry of Kehlmark returns to his homeland to settle in Escal-Vigor, the castle of his ancestors, located on a wild island in the North Sea. There, the aristocrat falls in love with Guidon Govaertz, a handsome peasant youth, who is rejected by his own family.
1899
L'Autre Vue
LGBTQ novels before Stonewall
Laurent Paridael is a young man from a good bourgeois family, who is completely out of touch with his environment, and prefers to hang out with thugs from working-class neighborhoods. He is seduced by their freedom, their lack of culture, but also by the slenderness of their bodies, their naturally graceful gestures and wild charm.
1904
La nouvelle Carthage
1893
Kermesses
Fiction, Country life
1884
Cycle patibulaire
1892

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Georges Eekhoud ranks 4,308 out of 7,302. Before him are Agustina Bessa-Luís, Luis Vélez de Guevara, Fritz Reuter, Stefano Benni, Osip Brik, and Pamela Colman Smith. After him are John Stott, Jan Blahoslav, Joachim Heinrich Campe, Larysa Hienijuš, Dmitry Furmanov, and Reynold A. Nicholson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Georges Eekhoud ranks 89. Before him are Alexandru Macedonski, L. A. Ring, Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt, Takamine Jōkichi, Théodore Flournoy, and Ruth Belville. After him are Robert Borden, Adela Zamudio, Marcel Brillouin, Hans Jæger, Alexandru Marghiloman, and Hermann von Stein. Among people deceased in 1927, Georges Eekhoud ranks 100. Before him are William Burnside, Carl Graebe, Émile Coste, Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge, Hermann Obrist, and Maximilian Harden. After him are Sakina Akhundzadeh, Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas, Friedrich von Scholtz, Fernand de Langle de Cary, Samuel Garman, and Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Georges Eekhoud ranks 559 out of 1,190. Before him are Willy Vandersteen (1913), Grégoire de Saint-Vincent (1584), Gonzales Coques (1614), André Vandewyer (1909), Léon Semmeling (1940), and Arnold Badjou (1909). After him are Charles de Broqueville (1860), Yannick Carrasco (1993), Henri Grégoire (1881), Arthur Legat (1898), Ferdinand Bracke (1939), and Étienne-Gaspard Robert (1763).

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Among WRITERS In Belgium

Among writers born in Belgium, Georges Eekhoud ranks 29. Before him are Daniël Heinsius (1580), Heinrich von Veldeke (1150), Jan Gruter (1560), Caspar Barlaeus (1584), Felix Timmermans (1886), and Simon Leys (1935). After him are Camille Lemonnier (1844), Louis Paul Boon (1912), Félicien Marceau (1913), Willem Elsschot (1882), FM-2030 (1930), and Françoise Mallet-Joris (1930).

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