Hubert Krains
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Hubert Krains (1862–1934) was a Belgian author who wrote two novels, five short-story collections and a collection of essays. His fiction focuses on peasant life, employs a simple and direct style, and is predominantly tragic in tone.[1]
Life
[edit]Born in Brussels, Krains became a member of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique. He wrote essays and became famous with Portraits d'écrivains belges (1930), a collection of essays on Belgian writers. Krains died in a train accident. A prize is named in his honour.[citation needed]
Works
[edit]- "Le pain noir" – short story anthologized in À la gloire de la Belgique, edited by Jan Greshoff (1915), pp. 237–241. (Available on dbnl.org)
Honours
[edit]- 1924: Commander in the Order of the Crown.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Benjamin M. Woodbridge (1948). High Lights in Recent Belgian Letters and Art. Books Abroad 22 (3): 240–244 JSTOR 40087549
- ^ Royal order of 21 July 1924.
