Tom Lanoye

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Tom Lanoye [lan-WA] (born August 27, 1958, in Sint-Niklaas) is a Belgian novelist and poet who works in Antwerp (Belgium) and Cape Town (South Africa). He gained widespread popularity in the early 1980s as part of the new generation of young Flemish novelists that included Herman Brusselmans and Kristien Hemmerechts. He is one of the most versatile and lauded authors of his generation, including outside the Dutch language area.From 1981 he was part of a duo together with James Bordello, who called themselves 'the Two Last Great Poetic Talents From Just Before The Third World War'. They published their own booklets, and within a year they had progressed from unannounced performances in student bars in Ghent to an appearance at the 'Night of Poetry' in Utrecht. Lanoye also wrote polemical pieces for journals such as 'De Zwijger', 'Propria Cures' and 'Humo'.