Christine D'haen

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.

Awards

 * 1951 – Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord
 * 1991 – Anna Bijnsprijs of the Dutch literature
 * 1992 – Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren