André Schmitz
André Schmitz (17 August 1929 – 15 January 2016) was a Belgian poet. He stayed in Central Africa, Lebanon, Quebec, and India.
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André Schmitz
- Name
- André Schmitz
- Born
- 17 August 1929
- Birthplace
- Erneuville, Belgium
- Died
- 15 January 2016
- Place of death
- Turpange, Belgium
- Occupation
- poet
- Nationality
- Belgium
- Honours
- Mallarmé Prize · Prix Tristan-Tzara
- Languages
- French
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• Name — André Schmitz • Born — 17 August 1929 • Birthplace — Erneuville, Belgium • Died — 15 January 2016 • Place of death — Turpange, Belgium • Occupation — poet
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André Schmitz was a writer and teacher, born on 17 August 1929 in Erneuville and died on 15 January 2016 in Turpange. Both events are recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Works
Works
• For the Love of Fire, the Artists, 1961 • Double Voice and attached, editions of Aquarius, 1965 • Soleils rauques, Andre de Rache, Brussels 1973 (triennial prize for Literature, Brussels 1975) * * • (Tristan Tzara prize, Paris 1991) • Scraping wing, The Tree lyrics (Amay), Phi (Luxembourg), The Writings of ironworks (Quebec), 1994 • (Academy Award Mallarme 2000) • A little rain between the teeth, poems, Protis-L'Arbre to Words, 2000 • In the prose of days, Anthology 1961 - 2001, Introduction - Study Dobzynski Charles, La Renaissance du livre, 2001
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Erneuville.
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Awards
In 1987, he won the A. and J. Goffin Prize Foundation for all of his culminated work, and 2000 he received the Mallarmé prize for Incises incisions. He also received the French Community of Belgium quinquennial prize of literature for (culmination of work), and Tristan Tzara prize for scraping wings.
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- Un numéro spécial André Schmitz, Pour ainsi dire lui est consacré dans le de la revue L'Arbre à paroles, Maison de la Poésie, 2010
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