Christine D'haen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Christine D'haen

Belgian writer

Date of Birth: 25-Oct-1923

Place of Birth: Sint-Amandsberg, Belgium

Date of Death: 03-Sep-2009

Profession: writer, poet

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Christine D'haen (25 October 1923 – 3 September 2009) was a Flemish author and poet.
She was born in Sint-Amandsberg and died at Bruges. D'haen studied Germanic philology at the University of Ghent and continued her studies in Amsterdam and Edinburgh.
She settled in Bruges and became a teacher at high school.
She made an inventory of the handwritings of Guido Gezelle while working at the Gezelle archive.
She wrote a biography of Guido Gezelle and also translated work of Hugo Claus into English. In 1958 her first book of poetry, Gedichten 1946-1958 (Poems 1946-1958), was published.