- His widow told that he was a man of the night ." You could one or maybe two evenings take him off of that schedule, but the third night there was no possibility stopping him: he had to write. ".
- His quadrilingual 'Filmografisch lexicon der wereldliteratuur' (3 volumes, 1971, 1973 and 1978) developed from his association with the Knokke film festival.
- Almost all of his novels were translated into many European languages.
- Herman Thiery began writing under the pen-name Johan Daisne in 1935, with the publication of a collection of poetry entitled 'Verzen'.
- Together with Hubert Lampo, he was one of the pioneers of magic realism in the Dutch language.
- Beside novels he also wrote screenplays, radio plays and non-fiction.
- Born in Ghent, Belgium, he attended the Koninklijk Atheneum before studying Economics and Slavic languages at Ghent University, receiving his doctorate in 1936.
- Daisne is considered one of the most valuable writers in Flanders.
- Two of his novels (The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short) and ('One Night... a Train) -with Yves Montand- were directed by André Delvaux.
- In 1945 he was appointed chief librarian of the city of Ghent.
- His father came from an old French noble family from the Aisne Department, hence his pseudonym d'Aisne or Daisne.
- In 1960, he was awarded with the Belgian State Prize for literature.
- When his father died in 1951, Johan Daisne became depressed and fell ill. His novel "The Prince of Lebanon" was a father's novel, but he did not want to publish it because the grief was still too great.
- Johan Daisne was cremated in silence. His ashes were scattered. Johan Daisne's name was placed on his father's grave (Westerbegraafplaats Ghent, grave 4287).
- He is the author of a considerable body of work: nine novels, sixty stories and short stories, several plays, twenty collections of poetry, twenty works devoted to cinema and around twenty other publications including reports, essays, a study on French writer Pierre Benoit and a history of Russian literature .
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