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Michel de Ghelderode
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Born
April 3
,
1898
·
Elsene, Belgium
Died
April 1
,
1962
·
Brussels, Belgium
Birth name
Adhémar Adolphe Louis Martens
Mini Bio
Michel de Ghelderode was born on April 3, 1898 in Elsene, Belgium. He was a writer, known for
La familia unida esperando la llegada de Hallewyn (1971)
,
Teatr Polskiego Radia (2004)
and
Television Theater (1953)
. He died on April 1, 1962 in Brussels, Belgium.
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Dramatist.
This prolific wrote more than 60 plays, a hundred stories, a number of articles on art and folklore and more than 20,000 letters.
His 1934 play La Balade du grand macabre served as inspiration for György Ligeti's opera Le Grand Macabre.
He died in solitude in 1962, not knowing that he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature.
In 1939 he stopped writing plays because he felt misunderstood. Afterwards he wrote only prose.
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