Stefan Hertmans’ imaginative reconstruction of a damaged life across the tumultuous decades of the 20th century; a deeply moving portrayal of family, grief, love and war. Translated by David McKay.
Stefan Hertmans
Stefan Hertmans is a prizewinning author of many works.
His works include poetry, novels, essays, plays, short stories and a handbook on the history of art. He has taught at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, at the Sorbonne, the Universities of Vienna, Berlin and Mexico City, at The Library of Congress in Washington, and University College London. He was born in Ghent, where he still lives, in 1951.
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