Christine D'haen | |
Birth Date: | 1923 10, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Sint-Amandsberg, Belgium |
Death Place: | Bruges, Belgium |
Nationality: | Belgian |
Occupation: | poet, writer |
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.