Frans Verschoren
Appearance
Frans Verschoren | |
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![]() Frans Verschoren | |
Born | Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Antwerp, Belgium | 5 March 1874
Died | 5 December 1951 Westmalle, Antwerp, Belgium | (aged 77)
Occupation | Writer, translator, teacher |
Language | Flemish |
Nationality | Belgian |
Years active | 1909–1947 |
Frans Verschoren (5 March 1874 – 5 December 1951) was a Flemish writer.
Biography
[edit]He was born in Sint-Katelijne-Waver in 1874.[1] After his studies at the normal school, he became a teacher in Lier and in Turnhout. In Lier he had Felix Timmermans as a pupil.[2] He then also became director of the Walcourt and later Boom state secondary schools. He was the author in particular of tales for young people.[1] He died in Westmalle, Belgium, in 1951.[3]
Bibliography
[edit]- Dompelaars (1909)
- Uit het Nethedal (1909)
- Jeugd (1910)
- Zonnig leven (1912)
- Langs kleine wegen (1912)
- Het gemartelde Lier. De eerste oorlogsjaren in het land van Sint-Gommarus (1919)
- Vlaamsche humor (1922)
- Onnozele kinderdag (1927)
- De dijkgravin (by Marie Gevers, translated from French, 1934)
- Tony Bergmann (1936)
- Verzoening (by Marie Gevers, translated from French, 1942)
- Armantje (by Hermann Claudius, translated from German, 1943)
- Sooike's jeugd (1944)
- Sam in Engeland (by C. Dowman, retold from English, 1946)
- Grijze dagen
- Maandag vieren
- Nonkel Sooi
- Novellen voor de jeugd (together with other authors)
- Van den roover Eyserentant
- Van een jongen die geluk had
References
[edit]- ^ a b Pissens, Désiré (1925). Vlaamsche weelde - een keus van zestig koppen uit onze letterkunde (in Dutch). Drukkerij Erasmus. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
- ^ Vercammen, Louis (1971). Felix Timmermans - de mens - het werk. Heideland-Orbis. p. 32. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
- ^ Spiegel der Letteren - Volumes 28-29. De Sikkel. 1986. p. 259. Retrieved 15 January 2022.