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3 unusual facts about Hugo Claus


Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 1985

Capelle and Devreese subsequently submitted a set of lyrics by one of Flanders' best-known and respected authors Hugo Claus.

De Leeuw van Vlaanderen

De Leeuw van Vlaanderen (film) (1985), based on the novel, written and directed by Hugo Claus

Ellen Jens

In the early 1970s she dated Hugo Claus, at the time when he promoted his novel Het jaar van de kreeft; Claus and Jens were photographed together as part of a campaign to plug the book, which had Claus's love life as its main topic.


Erik Pevernagie

This gave him the opportunity to meet interesting characters, like Claude Lelouche, Atom Egoyan, Roy Lichtenstein, Hugo Claus etc.

Ric's Art Boat

Atom Egoyan, Claude Lelouche, Benoit Lamy, Jan Verheyen), visual artists (ex. Luc Tuymans, Nicolas Vial, illustrator of French Newspaper Le Monde), singers (ex.Axelle Red, the Kooks, Tom Barman, Karen Cheryl), authors (Hugo Claus).

Yann Lovelock

Among Dutch-language poets he helped edit and translate have been Guido Gezelle, Anton van Wilderode, Hugo Claus, Willem Roggeman, Stefaan van den Bremt and H.C. ten Berge.


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