WRITER

Michel de Ghelderode

1898 - 1962

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Michel de Ghelderode (born Adémar Adolphe Louis Martens; 3 April 1898 – 1 April 1962) was an avant-garde Belgian dramatist, from Flanders, who spoke and wrote in French. His works often dealt with the extremes of human experience, from death and degradation to religious exaltation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michel de Ghelderode has received more than 57,850 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Michel de Ghelderode is the 1,920th most popular writer (up from 2,007th in 2019), the 259th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 269th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Belgian Writer.

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Notable Works

Seven Plays Volume 1
Translations into English
1960
Sortilèges et autres contes crépusculaires
1962
Correspondance de Michel de Ghelderode
Correspondence, Belgian Dramatists, Ghelderode, Michel de.
1991
Théâtre
1950
Sortilèges
1947
La halte catholique
1999

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Michel de Ghelderode ranks 1,920 out of 7,302. Before him are Gitta Sereny, Watchman Nee, Juhani Aho, Nicanor Parra, Miklós Nyiszli, and Thomas Wyatt. After him are Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani, Edward Young, Josef Lada, Isaac Alfasi, Philippe Quinault, and Wolfgang Borchert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Michel de Ghelderode ranks 86. Before him are Fyodor Kuznetsov, Desanka Maksimović, Luigi Fagioli, Helmuth von Pannwitz, Piero Sraffa, and Berenice Abbott. After him are Tawfiq al-Hakim, Hans Globke, Grace Moore, Randolph Scott, Joseph Kessel, and Lionel Robbins. Among people deceased in 1962, Michel de Ghelderode ranks 66. Before him are Leonardo De Lorenzo, Poul Nielsen, Antoine Pevsner, Wilhelm Ackermann, Louis Massignon, and Prince René of Bourbon-Parma. After him are Karl Rapp, Hans von Salmuth, Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa, Tod Browning, Enrico Mattei, and Henri Wallon.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Michel de Ghelderode ranks 259 out of 1,190. Before him are Rimbert (830), William of St-Thierry (1085), Godfrey I, Count of Louvain (1060), Ovide Decroly (1871), Gillis van Coninxloo (1544), and Pierre Deligne (1944). After him are Adam Frans van der Meulen (1632), John of Ruusbroec (1293), Pierre de Decker (1812), François-Joseph Fétis (1784), Cornelis Floris de Vriendt (1514), and Frans Pourbus the Younger (1569).

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Among WRITERS In Belgium

Among writers born in Belgium, Michel de Ghelderode ranks 14. Before him are Henri Michaux (1899), Laura Marx (1845), Victor Serge (1890), Georges Rodenbach (1855), Hugo Claus (1929), and Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq (1522). After him are John of Ruusbroec (1293), Jean Bolland (1596), William of Moerbeke (1215), Guido Gezelle (1830), Hendrik Conscience (1812), and J.-H. Rosny aîné (1856).

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