Paul Claes is a Flemish

Flanders

Flanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp...

 writer, poet and translator.

Born in Leuven

Leuven

Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region, Belgium...

, Claes graduated in classical literature and Germanic philology

Philology

Philology is the study of language in written historical sources; it is a combination of literary studies, history and linguistics.Classical philology is the philology of Greek and Classical Latin...

 (Dutch and English). He obtained a PhD in 1981, with a disseration De mot zit in de mythe on references to classical texts in the works of Hugo Claus

Hugo Claus

Hugo Maurice Julien Claus was a leading Belgian author who published under his own name as well as various pseudonyms. Claus' literary contributions spanned the genres of drama, the novel, and poetry; he also left a legacy as a painter and film director...

. He worked at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven is a Dutch-speaking university in Flanders, Belgium.It is located at the centre of the historic town of Leuven, and is a prominent part of the city, home to the university since 1425...

 (1984-1985) and the Catholic University of Nijmegen (1985-1988).

Claes made his debut as a poet in 1983 with sonnet

Sonnet

A sonnet is one of several forms of poetry that originate in Europe, mainly Provence and Italy. A sonnet commonly has 14 lines. The term "sonnet" derives from the Occitan word sonet and the Italian word sonetto, both meaning "little song" or "little sound"...

s in De zonen van de zon. His translation of T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" (2007) includes a comprehensive commentary and a new interpretation. "La clef des Illuminations" (2008) is a new interpretation of Arthur Rimbaud's masterpiece.

• Het netwerk en de nevelvlek (1979)
• De zonen van de zon (1983)
• Claus-reading (1984)
• De mot zit in de mythe (1984)
• 'Hans Favery. Een (de)constructie' (1985)
• De Kwadratuur van de Onyx (1986)
• Claus quadrifrons (1987)
• Echo's echo's. De kunst van de allusie (1988)
• Rebis (1989)
• Het laatste boek (1992)
• De Sater (1993)
• Gezelle gelezen (1993 [i.e. 1992])
• Embleem (1994)
• Mimicry (1994)
• Raadsels van Rilke (1995)
• De zoon van de Panter (1996)
• De phoenix (1998)
• De gulden tak (2000)
• Glans (2000)
• De kameleon (2001)
• Het Hart van de Schorpioen (2002)
• De Lezer (2003)
• Lily (2003)
• Sfinx (2004)
• Psyche (2006)

Awards

• 1984 - Prijs voor de Kunstkritiek
• 1985 - Literaire Prijs van de stad Antwerpen
• 1991 - Driejaarlijkse Belgische Staatsprijs voor het essay
• 1996 - Martinus Nijhoff
  Martinus Nijhoff
  Martinus Nijhoff was a Dutch poet and essayist. He studied literature in Amsterdam and law in Utrecht. His debut was made in 1916 with his volume De wandelaar...
  
  prijs

Source

• Paul Claes (in Dutch)
• Paul Claes (in Dutch)