Gabriëlle Demedts

Gabriëlle Demedts

Gabriëlle Demedts together with her brother André Demedts and with the Declercq family, around 1923.
Born Wielsbeke, Belgium
Died Kortrijk, Belgium
Pen name Maria Houtland
Language Dutch
Nationality Belgium
Citizenship Belgium

Gabriëlle Demedts (Wielsbeke, June 11, 1909 - Kortrijk, September 6, 2002) was a Flemish Belgian poet. She was a sibling of André Demedts. In 1934 she wrote her first poems and in 1937 she publish her first work "Een gevangene zingt" (The prisoner sings). As a young child she was struck by Poliomyelitis which has determined the rest of her life.

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