Marie Gevers

Marie Gevers , born with Edegem, close to Antwerp, the December 30th 1883, and deceased with Missembourg the March 9th 1975 is a Belgian novelist .

Biography

Educated by her mother, it reveals an private interest for the reading. Very early, it composes of the poems bucolic, encouraged by Verhaeren. Married in 1908, it devotes its life to its family. Its poetry is marked besides by the love of its roots.

In 1917 appears its first collection, Missembourg . Later, towards 1930, it turns more particularly to the writing in prose: Mrs Orpha or the serenade of May (1933), Guldentop (1934) and the life line (1937) make perdurer this constant interest for the small people and from Antwerp life. Marie Gevers was the first woman elected with the Royal Academy of Language and Literature Frenchwomen of Belgium in 1938. In 1960, it receives the quinquennial Grand Prix of French literature. It is the mother of the writer and playwright Paul Willems.

Publications

• the countess of the dams - Collection Babel N°4

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