Alice Nahon
Alice Nahon | |
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Born | 23 August 1896 Antwerp |
Died | 21 May 1933 | (aged 36)
Nationality | Belgian |
Occupation | poet |
Alice Nahon (16 August 1896 – 21 May 1933) was a Belgian poet from Antwerp.
Biography
Alice Nahon was born in Antwerp on 23 August 1896., where she graduated.
However, when World War I broke out, she became a student nurse at the Stuivenberg hospital in Antwerp. After weeks of arduous labor, hardly eighteen years old, she became ill and it seemed that her lungs had been damaged. She still studied at the Akademie van Antwerpen (English: Academy of Antwerp) and literature classes of
During her stay in Tessenderlo her first poems were published in Vlaamsch Leven. During her stay in the Sint-Jozefsinstituut she wrote two collections of poems: Vondelingskens (1920)
Thanks to the generosity of her many admirers she could consult a foreign doctor. In January 1923 she left Belgium for
She enjoyed her regained freedom, traveled as a celebrated poet through Flanders and the Netherlands and made many friends among artists. In 1927, she became town librarian in Mechelen, where she lived a fairly liberated way of life. However, she also became friends with more traditional writers, such as Maurits Sabbe and Gerard Walschap.
With her collection of poems Schaduw (1928) she tried to break away from her former well-behaved poetry, but she did not succeed. In 1932, she became ill again and had to resign her job as a librarian. She lived at the picturesque vault house of the medieval castle Cantecroy at Oude-God. Her health deteriorated and she spent the last year of her life at her apartment in the Carnotstraat (in nr 17) in the centre of Antwerp. As from January 1933, she became heavily sick and bedridden. She weakened from day to day, and after a painful illness she died on 21 May 1933, scarcely 36 years old. She was buried under enormous interest. Her grave is located on the
Bibliography
- Vondelingskens (1920)
- Op zachte vooizekens (1921)
- Anthology of Alice Nahon, uit Vondelingskens and Op zachte vooizekens (1926)
- Schaduw (1928)
- Alice Nahon en haar gedichten. Anthology (1932)
- Maart-April. (1936)
- Bloemen van 't veld (anthology collected by Karel Jonckheere, 1970)
- Alice Nahon. Collected poems (1983)
- De mooiste gedichten van Alice Nahon (1983)
See also
References
- ^ a b c d "Manu van der Aa, 'Love is what I have loved'. The life of Alice Nahon (1896–1933)" (PDF). University of Groningen. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
External links
- Alice Nahon School
- Alice Nahon[dead link]
- Alice Nahon biography, three poems
- Alice Nahon – poetry Archived 2 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- Works by Alice Nahon at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Biography Institute (28 May 2019). "The Biography of Alice Nahon". University of Groningen, Biography Institute. Biography Institute, University of Groningen. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
Further reading
- Aa, Dr. E.J.J. (Manu) van der (2008): ‘Ik heb de liefde liefgehad’. Het leven van Alice Nahon. Tielt: Uitgeverij Lanno.