Leopold Maximiliaan Felix Timmermans (July 5, 1886 – January 24, 1947) is the most translated author of Flanders. Jump to: navigation, search July 5 is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 179 days remaining. ... 1886 is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) // Events January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. ... Jump to: navigation, search January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The word author has several meanings: The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). ... Flanders (Flemish, Fleming) (Dutch: Vlaanderen (Vlaams, Vlaming), French: Flandre(s), (flamand, flamand), German: Flandern, (flämisch, Flame) has two main designations: a constituent community of the federal Belgian state through its social and political organisations, and through the institutions of the Flemish Community (with its own Flemish government and Flemish...

Timmermans was born in the Belgian city of Lier, as the thirteenth of fourteen children in the family. He died in Lier, aged 60. He was an autodidact, and wrote plays, historical novels, religious works, and poems. His masterpiece, according to many, is the book Pallieter (1916). Timmermans also wrote under the pen-name Polleke van Mher. Lier (French: Lierre) is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. ... Autodidacticism (also autodidactism) is self-education or self-directed learning. ... Jump to: navigation, search A play is a common form of literature, usually consisting chiefly of dialog between characters, and usually intended for performance rather than reading. ... A historical novel is a novel in which the story is set among historical events, or more generally, in which the time of the action predates the lifetime of the author. ... Poetry (ancient Greek: poieo = create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ...

Besides author, he was also a painter and drawer.

During the first years of the Second World War, Timmermans was editor of the Flemish nationalist Volk. Because of this, and because of the Rembrandt prize he received in 1942 from Hamburg University, he was (perhaps wrongly) seen as a collaborator. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the year. ... Collaboration, literally, consists of working together with one or more others. ...