Willem Elsschot

Writer May 7 (died age 78) Antwerp, Belgium 1968–2002 (34 year career)

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Biography

Alphonsus Josephus de Ridder (7 May 1882 – 31 May 1960), was a Belgian writer and poet who wrote under the pseudonym Willem Elsschot. One of the most prominent Flemish author, his most famous work, Cheese (1933) is the most translated Flemish-language novel of all time Elsschot began writing poetry in 1900, making his authorial debut as a poet publishing in the magazine Alvoorder. It was, however, as a writer of prose that he achieved much of his fame. Whilst living in Rotterdam he wrote Villa …