Tom Lanoye (born August 27, 1958 in Sint-Niklaas) is a Fleming novelist and poet. August 27 is the 239th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (240th in leap years), with 126 days remaining. ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Sint-Niklaas is a municipality located in Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium, and in the Flemish province of East Flanders. ...
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1983 De glazen klomp (poetry)
1983 Rozegeur en Maneschijn (essays)
1984 In de piste (poetry)
1984 Bagger (poetry)
1985 Een slagerszoon met een brilletje (stories)
1986 Het cirkus van de slechte smaak (satirical essays)
In an interview TomLanoye once perfectly summed up the ambiguity of his attitude to the place of his birth: ‘Flanders fills me with great abhorrence and admiration: I write about the banal and sublime things I encounter here’.
For TomLanoye, political wrongs and corruption function as a metaphor for human weakness, and in his work that weakness is called Belgium.
TomLanoye (born 1958) published the first part of an ambitious trilogy in 1997 Het goddelijke monster (The Divine Monster), aimed at establishing his reputation as a novelist besides the renown he already enjoyed as a columnist and playwright.
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