Famous Authors from Belgium

List of the most popular authors from Belgium, listed alphabetically with photos when available. For centuries authors have been among the world's most important people, helping chronicle history and keep us entertained with one of the earliest forms of storytelling. Whether they're known for fiction, non-fiction, poetry or even technical writing, the famous Belgian authors on this list have kept that tradition alive by writing renowned works that have been praised around the world. You can find useful information below about these notable Belgian writers, such as when they were born and where their place of birth was.

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1 Georges Simenon La Premiere enquete de Maigret, La Marie Du Port, La Veuve Couderc

2 May Sarton Fur Person, The Education of Harriet Hatfield, Crucial Conversations

3 Julio Cortázar Hopscotch, Las Armas Secretas, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

4 René Magritte

5 Léon Van Hove George Placzek^! 1905-1955

6 Hergé Tintin in Tibet, The Seven Crystal Balls, The Crab with the Golden Claws

7 Raoul Cauvin La pelle aux morts, La tournée du patron, Le Drain sifflera trois fois

8 Django Reinhardt The great Django Reinhardt, I got rhythm (A Jazz Hour With Series), The Best of Django Reinhardt

9 Hugo Claus The Sorrow of Belgium, The swordfish, Desire

10 Peyo La Schtroumpfette^! tome 3, La soupe aux Schtroumpfs^! tome 10, The Astrosmurf

11 Henri Michaux Miserable Miracle, Épreuves^! exorcismes^! 1940-1944, Le jardin exalte

12 Edward Schillebeeckx Le Christ^! sacrement de la rencontre de Dieu, Le Mariage, The eucharist

13 André Franquin Le gang des gaffeurs, Gaston 19, La Saga Des Gaffes

14 Chantal Akerman Family in Brussels, Chantal Akerman

15 Maurice Maeterlinck Pelléas and Mélisande, The Treasure of the Humble, Mary Magdalene

16 Ilya Prigogine The molecular theory of solutions, Étude thermodynamique des phénomènes irréversibles, La nouvelle alliance

17 Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt Oscar and the Lady in Pink, La secte des Egoïstes, M. Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran

18 Claude Lévi-Strauss Structural anthropology, The Raw and the Cooked, Tristes Tropiques

19 Robert Goffin Le Roi Des Belges A-t-il Trahi?, Le fusillé de Dunkerque, Le Versant noir

20 George Sarton A guide to the history of science, Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C, The history of science and the new humanism

21 Amélie Nothomb The Character of Rain, The Stranger Next Door, The Enemy's Cosmetique

22 Henri Pirenne Les villes du Moyen Age, Las Ciudades de La Edad Media, Geburt des Abendlandes

23 Jean Dufaux Fox^! tome 2, Ombres^! tome 2, Les Révoltés^! tome 3

24 Carl Norac Nemo et le volcan, L'île aux câlins, Bonjour^! mon petit coeur

25 Hendrik Conscience De Leeuw van Vlaanderen, The boys of the Sierras^! or^! the young gold hunters, Scènes de la vie flamande

26 Sidney Nolan Nolan, Nolan on Nolan, Notes for Oedipus

27 Peter Paul Rubens

28 Wim Mertens American minimal music

29 Charles Spaak Grand illusion

30 Mehmet Ali Birand Demirkırat: Bir Demokrasinin Doğuşu, Panorama '97 CD-ROM 32. Gün Dünya'da ve Türkiye'de Yılın Olayları, Diyet

31 Bob de Groot Lucky Luke^! Bd.75^! Der Kunstmaler, Alias lord X, Robin Dubois^! tome 6

32 Eric de Kuyper

33 Willem Elsschot Pensionen/Het tankschip, Kaas, Elsschot leest voor

34 Dominique Rolin Le futur immédiat, La Rénovation, Les marais

35 Koenraad Elst Freedom of expression - Secular Theocracy Versus Liberal Democracy, Update on the Aryan Invasion Debate, Ayodhya: The Case Against the Temple

36 Dominique Pire Building peace

37 Béatrix Beck The Passionate Heart, Stella Corfou, Des accommodements avec le ciel

38 Yves Debay Heliborne, The Balkans on Fire, War in the Balkans

39 Jacqueline Harpman I Who Have Never Known Men, La lucarne, Récit de la dernière année

40 Jan Cox Jan Cox

41 Simon Stevin The Hauen-finding Art

42 Adolphe Quetelet A treatise on man and the development of his faculties

43 Willy Vandersteen Amazing Coconut, Thyl Ulenspiegel^! tome 5, Kingdom of the Sea

44 Edgar Pierre Jacobs The Necklace Affair, Blake et Mortimer, Papyrus of Manethon

45 Pierre Alechinsky Pierre Alechinsky

46 Victor Horta Horta

47 Kitty Crowther L'Anniversaire de l'écureuil, Les animaux et leurs poètes, L'Enfant racine

48 Paul Haesaerts James Ensor, Renoir

49 Luc Tuymans Premonition, The passion, Luc Tuymans

50 Philippe Van Parijs What's Wrong with a Free Lunch?, Evolutionary explanation in the social sciences, Real freedom for all

1

Georges Simenon La Premiere enquete de Maigret, La Marie Du Port, La Veuve Couderc

2

May Sarton Fur Person, The Education of Harriet Hatfield, Crucial Conversations

3

Julio Cortázar Hopscotch, Las Armas Secretas, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

4

René Magritte

5

Léon Van Hove George Placzek^! 1905-1955

6

Hergé Tintin in Tibet, The Seven Crystal Balls, The Crab with the Golden Claws

7

Raoul Cauvin La pelle aux morts, La tournée du patron, Le Drain sifflera trois fois

8

Django Reinhardt The great Django Reinhardt, I got rhythm (A Jazz Hour With Series), The Best of Django Reinhardt

9

Hugo Claus The Sorrow of Belgium, The swordfish, Desire

10

Peyo La Schtroumpfette^! tome 3, La soupe aux Schtroumpfs^! tome 10, The Astrosmurf

11

Henri Michaux Miserable Miracle, Épreuves^! exorcismes^! 1940-1944, Le jardin exalte

12

Edward Schillebeeckx Le Christ^! sacrement de la rencontre de Dieu, Le Mariage, The eucharist

13

André Franquin Le gang des gaffeurs, Gaston 19, La Saga Des Gaffes

14

Chantal Akerman Family in Brussels, Chantal Akerman

15

Maurice Maeterlinck Pelléas and Mélisande, The Treasure of the Humble, Mary Magdalene

16

Ilya Prigogine The molecular theory of solutions, Étude thermodynamique des phénomènes irréversibles, La nouvelle alliance

17

Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt Oscar and the Lady in Pink, La secte des Egoïstes, M. Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran

18

Claude Lévi-Strauss Structural anthropology, The Raw and the Cooked, Tristes Tropiques

19

Robert Goffin Le Roi Des Belges A-t-il Trahi?, Le fusillé de Dunkerque, Le Versant noir

20

George Sarton A guide to the history of science, Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C, The history of science and the new humanism

21

Amélie Nothomb The Character of Rain, The Stranger Next Door, The Enemy's Cosmetique

22

Henri Pirenne Les villes du Moyen Age, Las Ciudades de La Edad Media, Geburt des Abendlandes

23

Jean Dufaux Fox^! tome 2, Ombres^! tome 2, Les Révoltés^! tome 3

24

Carl Norac Nemo et le volcan, L'île aux câlins, Bonjour^! mon petit coeur

25

Hendrik Conscience De Leeuw van Vlaanderen, The boys of the Sierras^! or^! the young gold hunters, Scènes de la vie flamande

26

Sidney Nolan Nolan, Nolan on Nolan, Notes for Oedipus

27

Peter Paul Rubens

28

Wim Mertens American minimal music

29

Charles Spaak Grand illusion

30

Mehmet Ali Birand Demirkırat: Bir Demokrasinin Doğuşu, Panorama '97 CD-ROM 32. Gün Dünya'da ve Türkiye'de Yılın Olayları, Diyet

31

Bob de Groot Lucky Luke^! Bd.75^! Der Kunstmaler, Alias lord X, Robin Dubois^! tome 6

32

Eric de Kuyper

33

Willem Elsschot Pensionen/Het tankschip, Kaas, Elsschot leest voor

34

Dominique Rolin Le futur immédiat, La Rénovation, Les marais

35

Koenraad Elst Freedom of expression - Secular Theocracy Versus Liberal Democracy, Update on the Aryan Invasion Debate, Ayodhya: The Case Against the Temple

36

Dominique Pire Building peace

37

Béatrix Beck The Passionate Heart, Stella Corfou, Des accommodements avec le ciel

38

Yves Debay Heliborne, The Balkans on Fire, War in the Balkans

39

Jacqueline Harpman I Who Have Never Known Men, La lucarne, Récit de la dernière année

40

Jan Cox Jan Cox

41

Simon Stevin The Hauen-finding Art

42

Adolphe Quetelet A treatise on man and the development of his faculties

43

Willy Vandersteen Amazing Coconut, Thyl Ulenspiegel^! tome 5, Kingdom of the Sea

44

Edgar Pierre Jacobs The Necklace Affair, Blake et Mortimer, Papyrus of Manethon

45

Pierre Alechinsky Pierre Alechinsky

46

Victor Horta Horta

47

Kitty Crowther L'Anniversaire de l'écureuil, Les animaux et leurs poètes, L'Enfant racine

48

Paul Haesaerts James Ensor, Renoir

49

Luc Tuymans Premonition, The passion, Luc Tuymans

50

Philippe Van Parijs What's Wrong with a Free Lunch?, Evolutionary explanation in the social sciences, Real freedom for all