Marianne van Hirtum
Marianne Van Hirtum (20 July 1935 – 11 June 1988) was a Belgian author writing in the French language, connected with the surrealist movement. She was born in Namur, the daughter of Louis Van Hirtum, a doctor at a psychiatric hospital. Van Hirtum met André Breton in 1959, the same year in which she participated in the International Surrealist Exhibition in Paris.
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Marianne van Hirtum
- Full name
- Marie Anne Paule Andrée Van Hirtum.
- Born
- sources differ (1925 and 1935). · Namur.
- Died
- 1988. · Paris.
- Nationality
- Belgium.
- Occupation
- painter, sculptor, poet and writer.
- Fields
- literary activity, poetry, belletristic literature and painting.
- Languages
- French.
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Marianne Van Hirtum (20 July 1935 – 11 June 1988) was a Belgian author writing in the French language, connected with the surrealist movement. She was born in Namur, the daughter of Louis Van Hirtum, a doctor at a psychiatric hospital. Van Hirtum met André Breton in 1959, the same year in which she participated in the International Surrealist Exhibition in Paris.
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Recorded at birth as Marie Anne Paule Andrée Van Hirtum. Born at Namur in 1935, died in Paris in 1988.
The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is literary activity, poetry and belletristic literature.
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