Patrick Conrad
Illustration — Image of Patrick Conrad Patrick Conrad (born 16 July 1945 in Antwerp) is a Flemish painter, poet, screenwriter and novelist, and one of the founders of The Pink Poets. He also directed about twenty movies for cinema and television, including – selected for the Cannes Festival - the international cult film Mascara. His work is part of important private collections in France, Belgium, England, Scotland, Germany, Holland, Denmark, Australia and U.S. He lived 34 years in the south of France and moved in 2023 to Porto Alegre, Brasil.
Patrick Conrad

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- 1945 · Antwerp.
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- Belgium
- Occupation
- screenwriter · poet · writer · film director · artist
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- Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord
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Illustration — Image of Patrick Conrad Patrick Conrad (born 16 July 1945 in Antwerp) is a Flemish painter, poet, screenwriter and novelist, and one of the founders of The Pink Poets. He also directed about twenty movies for cinema and television, including – selected for the Cannes Festival - the international cult film Mascara. His work is part of important private collections in France, Belgium, England, Scotland, Germany, Holland, Denmark, Australia and U.S. He lived 34 years in the south of France and moved in 2023 to Porto Alegre, Brasil.
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In Belgium he is represented by the Paul Verbeke gallery which published several art books about his work.
• Les wagons verts-réséda (1967) Director • Un soir, un train (1968) Actor – Le maître d'hôtel • Slijk (1972) Director • Slachtvee (1979) Director/Writer • Een vrouw tussen hond en wolf (1979) Actor – Fregoli • Ieder mens die sterft is een museum dat brandt (1982) Director • Maria Danneels (of het leven dat we droomden) (1982) Actor • Parlez-moi d'amour (1983) Director • Na de liefde (1983) Actor – Guido • L'agenda d'Agenor (1983) Director • Permeke (1985) Director - Writer • Mascara (1987) Director - Writer • Hector (1987) Actor – Filmregisseur • Het sacrament (1990) Producer
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1945
Patrick Conrad born at Antwerp.
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• Literature • 1969 – Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord • 1971 – Poetry prize of 'De Vlaamse Gids' • 1976 – Poetry prize of de Province of Antwerp • 2008 – Diamant Bullit Award (Best Thriller of the Netherlands and Belgium) for Starr. • 2015 - Hercule Poirot Award (Best Flemish thriller) for ‘Moço’. • Film • 1967 Prize of the experimental short movie for Les wagons verts-réséda, Benelux Filmfestival. • 1985 Prize of the video production for Parlez-moi d'amour, festival of Nyons, Switzerland. • 1985 Oecumenique Prize for Parlez-moi d'amour, Festival of Nyons, Switzerland. • 1986 Grand prix for Parlez-moi d'amour, Festival Video Réalité, Brussels. • 1985 Special Prize of the Jury for Permeke, festival de Nyons, Switzerland. • 1985 Prize of the Public for Permeke, festival de Nyons, Switzerland. • 1985 Prix Femina for Permeke. • 1985 André Cavens Award – Prize for the best Belgian Movie of the year for Permeke. • 1986 Bert Leysen Prize (Prize for the best Belgian Television Movie 1985/86) for DadaTristesse.
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- 1.Henri-Floris Jespers, inleiding bij : Nic van Bruggen pp, Uit het dagboek van een pink poet, Walter Soethoudt, Antwerpen, p. 14 ; Website cultus-online.be, 2017; Algemeen Letterkundig Lexicon, (DBNL, 2012); Pink Poets, Schrijvenderwijs, website, 2017; Geert Buelens, Van Ostaijen tot heden. Zijn invloed op de Vlaamse poëzie, Vantilt , 2008 (DBNL, 2015), p. 982, 983
- 2.Yves T’Sjoen, De Heiliging van tekens op het steen. Nic van Bruggen en de cultus van een romantisch dichterschap. Een woud van ‘ismen’: essentialisme, estheticisme, decadentisme, Zacht Lawijd. Jaargang 6 (2006-2007), (DBNL 2015), p.79; Henri-Floris Jespers , Maniërisme en moderne sensibiliteit in: Mercantile marine engineering, de galge, Brugge, Antwerpen, 1967, p. 134,138
- 3.Patrick Conrad, De gehuurde villa te Nikozie, in : Mercantile marine engeneering, p. 28
- 4.As. Verzamelde gedichten, Poëziecentrum, Gent:, 2015
- 5.Patrick Conrad, De Cadillac van Mallarmé. Een suite van 30 gedichten bij 30 collages, Uitgeverij Vrijdag, Antwerpen, 2016
- 6.Patrick Conrad, De Cadillac van Mallarmé, p. 33
- 7.Knack Hercule Poirotprijs 2024. Boektopia.
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Patrick Conrad is recorded as screenwriter, poet, writer, film director and artist.
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