Nationality Belgian Name Pierre Broodcoorens | Role Writer Died 1924, La Hulpe, Belgium | |
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Pierre Broodcoorens (Brussels, 1885 - La Hulpe, 1924) was a French writer who wrote in Flemish. He was of East Flemish origin but born in Brussels. He was a poet, playwright and novelist, and was influenced by Georges Eekhoud and Camille Lemonnier.
He was both a convinced socialist and Flemish nationalist. In works such as Le carillonneur des esprits and Le sang des Flamands rouge he pays tribute to the Flemish resistance against oppression and occupation by both French and Spanish forces.
Works
This poetry book consists of five parts: "Clocke Roeland", "Les Soleils d'antan", "Les Orages passants", "Les Deuillants procession Aires" and "les Horizons précurseurs".
This novel was published in 1914 as a serial in the socialist newspaper Le Peuple. During the First World War it was published in Berlin in a German translation Rotes Flame Blut, which was used by the Germans against the wishes of the author as a propaganda tool. Broodcoorens appeared to have suffered a nervous breakdown in 1918 as a result.
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