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{{short description|Belgian writer}}
{{infobox person
| name =
| image = Stijn Streuvels by Modest Huys.jpg | caption = Stijn Streuvels by [[Modest Huys]]
| birth_date = {{birth date|1871|10|03|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Heule]], Belgium
| birth_name =
| death_date = {{death date and age|1969|08|15|1871|10|03|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Ingooigem]], Belgium
| occupation = writer
| notable_works = ''[[De vlaschaard]]''
| years_active = 1899-1966
| spouse = Alida Staelens
| relatives = [[Guido Gezelle]] (uncle)▼
| children = Paula (1906)<br/>Paul (1909)<br/>Dina (1916)<br/>Isa (1922)
▲| relatives = [[Guido Gezelle]] (uncle)
}}
'''Stijn Streuvels''' (3 October 1871, [[Heule]], [[Kortrijk]] - 15 August 1969, [[Ingooigem]], [[Anzegem]]), born '''Franciscus (Frank) Petrus Maria Lateur''', was a Flemish Belgian writer.
==Biography==
He started writing at a very young age. He was inspired by his uncle,
In 1905 he married Alida Staelens. They had 4 children: Paula (1906), Paul (1909), Dina (1916) and Isa (1922). In 1980 their house became a [[museum]] dedicated to Streuvels.
Streuvels work usually deals with the rural life of poor farmers in [[Flanders]]. ''De
In 1937 and 1938 Streuvels garnered the majority of the [[Nobel Committee]] votes for his receiving the literature [[Nobel Prize]], but each time the Academy awarded the prize to someone else: in 1937 he had to give way to [[Roger Martin du Gard]] and in 1938 to a new discovery, [[Pearl Buck]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/articles/svensen/index.html|title=The Nobel Prize in Literature: Nominations and Reports 1901–1950|publisher=nobelprize.org}}</ref> He became [[Doctor (title)|doctor]] [[honoris causa]] at the [[Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968)|University of Leuven]], the [[University of Münster]] and the [[University of Pretoria]].
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== Published work ==
[[Image:Ingooigem - Het Lijsternest.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Het Lijsternest, house of Streuvels, now a museum]]
* ''Lenteleven'' (1899) - containing
* ''Zomerland'' (1900) - containing ''Groeikracht'', ''Zomerland'', ''Meimorgen'' and ''Het woud''
* ''Zonnetij'' (1900) - containing ''De oogst'', ''In 't water'', ''Zomerzondag'' and ''Avondrust''
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* ''Dagen'' (1902) - containing ''De kalfkoe'', ''Naar buiten'', ''Sint-Jan'', ''Sint-Josef'', ''Vrede'' and ''Verovering''
* ''Vertellingen van Tolstoï'' (1902) - 13 narrations of [[Leo Tolstoy|Tolstoy]], translated from German
* ''Minnehandel'' (1903) - containing ''Joel'', ''Maagdekensminne'',
* ''Geluk in 't huishouden'' (1903) - Book of Tolstoy, translated from German
* ''Soldatenbloed'' (1904) - Dramatic play
* ''Dorpsgeheimen I'' (1904) - containing ''De lawine'', ''Bertken en de moordenaars alle twaalf'' (in later editions : ''Een beroerde maandag'') and ''Jantje Verdure''
* ''Dorpsgeheimen II'' (1904) - containing ''Kinderzieltje'',
* ''Openlucht'' (1905) - containing ''Zonder dak'', ''Grootmoederken'', ''Een nieuw hoedje'', ''Het duivelstuig'' and ''Jeugd''
* ''Stille avonden'' (1905) - containing ''Een lustige begraving'', ''Horieneke'', ''Zomerdagen op het vlakke land'', ''Zonneblommen'' and ''Ingoyghem''
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* ''Morgenstond'' (1912)
* ''De werkman'' (1913) - Later included in ''Werkmenschen''
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* ''Een beroerde maandag'' (1913) - containing ''Een beroerde maandag'' and ''De lawine'' (from ''Dorpsgeheimen I'')
* ''Dorpslucht in 2 delen'' (1914)
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* ''Reinaert de Vos'' (1921)
* ''De blijde dag'' (1921) see ''Najaar I''
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* ''Prutske'' (1922)
* ''Grootmoedertje'' (1922) - Play version of ''Grootmoederken'' from ''Openlucht''
* ''Vertelsels van 't jaar nul'' (1922) - containing 29 short stories
* ''Land en leven in Vlaanderen'' (1923) - containing ''Het uitzicht'',
* ''Herinneringen uit het verleden'' (1924) - containing ''Onze streek'', ''Damme'', ''Veurn-Ambacht'', ''Volkslectuur'' (= edited and enhanced version of ''Over vrouwe Courtmans''), ''Schoonheid'', ''De schoonste deugd'', ''Kinderlectuur'', ''Mijn schooltijd'', ''Het lied van den weemoed'', ''Mijn loopbaan op de planken'', ''Voor den oorlog'', ''Mijn fiets in oorlogstijd'', ''Na den oorlog'', ''Na vijf en twintig jaren''
* ''Tristan en Isolde'' (1924) - Based on the old folk book
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* ''Drie Russische novellen'' (1932)
* ''De rampzalige kaproen'' (1933) - Rewriting of a [[medieval]] [[rural]] [[novel]] of Wernher de Tuinder
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* ''Sagen uit het hooge noorden'' (1934) - containing 38 tales from Denmark, Sweden and [[Iceland]]
* ''Zeelieden en zeevisscherij'' (1934) - Edited from French book of René de Pauw: ''Gens de mer et pêche maritime''
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* ''Hugo Verriest'' (1964) - Monography
* ''In levenden lijve'' (1966) - Reworkings of some texts from ''Heule'', ''Avelghem'', ''Ingoyghem'' and ''Ingoyghem II'', ''Kroniek van de familie Gezelle'' and ''Herinneringen uit het verleden''
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* ''Het zinnespel van droom en dood'' (1971) - play version of ''Het leven en de dood in den ast''
* ''Hoe ik Brugge gezien en beleefd heb'' (1971)
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== External links ==
{{Commons category}}
* {{Gutenberg author |id=
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Stijn Streuvels}}
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