Baroness Monika van Paemel (born 4 May 1945) is a Belgian

Belgium

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 writer. Born in Poesele

Nevele

Nevele is a municipality located in the Belgian province of East Flanders. The municipality comprises the towns of Hansbeke, Landegem, Merendree, Nevele proper, Poesele and Vosselare. On January 1, 2006 Nevele had a total population of 11,217...

, aged 14 she attended the Heilig Graf boarding school in Turnhout, where she graduated in commercial sciences. In 1963 she married Theo Butsen, whome she divorced some years later. Together they had two daughters, but one of them died aged seventeen.

On 16 July 1993, she was knighted and became a baroness.

Awards

• 1972 - Prijs voor het beste literair debuut
• 1973 - Literaire prijs voor letterkunde Oost-Vlaanderen
• 1986 - Dirk Martens
  Dirk Martens
  Dirk Martens was a printer and editor in Flanders. He went to Venice and worked with the humanist Gerardus de Lisa. In 1473, he returned to Aalst and together with Johan van Westfalen started a printing press. He printed a book on the two lovers of Enea Piccolomini who later became Pope Pius II...
  
   prijs
• 1986 - Prijs van de Vlaamse provincies

Source

• Monika van Paemel
• Willem M. Roggeman, Monika van Paemel In: Beroepsgeheim 6 (1992)