Albert Bontridder is a Belgian

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 architect

Architect

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 and writer

Writer

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. In 1953 he married Olga Dohnalova, a Czech refugee, and together they had two children.

He graduated as an architect in 1942. As an architect, he made the plan for the house of his friend Louis Paul Boon

Louis Paul Boon

Louis Paul Boon was a Flemish journalist and novelist who is considered one of the major 20th century writers in the Dutch language...

. He was an editor of the experimental illustrated magazines Tijd en Mens (E: Time and Man) (1949–1955) and Kentering (E: Change) (1966–1977). He published his first poems he in French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 and he made his actual debut with Hoog water (E: high tide) (1951).

Awards

• 1957 - Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord
  Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord
  The Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord is a symbolic award which was created in 1951 by Herman Teirlinck and the editorial team of the Nieuw Vlaams Tijdschrift to counteract ideologically driven restrictions on the freedom of expression.He wanted to bring those persons into the spotlight who actively...
  
  
• 1960 - Literaire prijs van de provincie Brabant
• 1970 - Dirk Martensprijs
• 1972 - Jan Campertprijs

Source

• Albert Bontridder
• Albert Bontridder
• Willem M. Roggeman
  Willem Roggeman
  -Honors:The international prize for poetry Premio Tratti 2007 is awarded to Willem Roggeman for his poems Blue Notebook, .-Bibliography:* Een hinderwoning * Rhapsody in blue...
  
  , ‘Albert Bontridder’ In: Beroepsgeheim 1 (1975)