![]() Later he contributed to the newspaper Vooruit after which he established himself as a freelancer. During evenings and weekends he studied art at the Aalsterse Academie voor Schone Kunsten but soon had to abandon this because of lack of funds.īoon discovered he had a talent for writing and found work as a journalist, first for De Rode Vaan (1945-1946), Front (1946-1947) and De Vlaamse Gids (1948). ![]() He forsook the literary Dutch of the Netherlands for regional Flemish words and expressions with which he colored his writing.īorn Lodewijk Paul Aalbrecht Boon in Aalst, Belgium to a working-class family, Boon left school at age 16 to work for his father as a carriage painter. Louis Paul Boon (15 March 1912 - ) was a Flemish journalist and novelist who is considered one of the major 20th century writers in the Dutch language. ![]()
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