Gaston Burssens Explained

Gaston Burssens
Birth Name:Gaston Karel Mathilde Burssens
Birth Date:1896 2, df=yes
Birth Place:Dendermonde, Belgium
Death Place:Antwerp, Belgium
Nationality:Belgian
Occupation:poet

Gaston Karel Mathilde Burssens (18 February 1896  - 29 January 1965) was a Belgian Expressionist poet. He studied at the Dutch-language Von Bissing University in Ghent during the German occupation of Belgium during World War I.

Biography

Like that of Paul van Ostaijen, during the 1920s his work evolved from humanitarian expressionism towards a more organic expressionism – upon which his poetry stayed focused on musicality. Van Ostaijen's not earlier published poems were published posthumously by Burssens.

Burssens received the 'Driejaarlijkse Prijs voor Poëzie, a reward for poetry granted every third year, for 1950–52, and once again for 1956–58.

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