Leopoldus Maximilianus Felix Timmermans:
(Lier, 5 July 1886 – there, 24 January 1947).
Flemish writer and poet. He was one of Flanders’ most translated and prolific authors. His best-known work is the novel Pallieter (1916). He also wrote under the pseudonym Polleke van Mher and occasionally as Stelijn Koldijs.
Polleke van Mher was derived from his first name (Leopoldus) and Mher was an abbreviation of his father’s name (Gommaire).
He was self-taught and wrote plays, novels of a historical nature, novellas, religious works, and poems. Besides being a writer, Timmermans was also a painter and draughtsman. He illustrated his own books as well as some books by his colleague and friend Ernest Claes. He was also the bookbinding designer of most of his books himself.
He was proposed three times as a candidate for a Nobel Prize.
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