Jacques De Decker

Jacques De Decker (19 August 1945 – 12 April 2020) was a Belgian writer and author.[1]

Jacques De Decker
De Decker in 2014
Born19 August 1945
Schaerbeek, Belgium
Died12 April 2020(2020-04-12) (aged 74)
Brussels, Belgium
NationalityBelgian
Occupation(s)Writer
Author

In 1985, De Decker published his first novel, La Grande Roue. It was selected for the Prix Goncourt and translated into several languages. He was President of the Organisation Beaumarchais in Paris, and then elected to replace Albert Ayguesparse as President of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique in Brussels in 1997.

In 1998, he helped relaunch the magazine Marginales. In this endeavor, he joined Jean Jauniaux, who also wrote La Faculté des Lettres.[2][3][4]

De Decker died on 12 April 2020 in Brussels at the age of 74.[5]

References
  1. "Jacques De Decker, écrivain et ancien journaliste au «Soir», a tiré sa révérence". Le Soir (in French). 13 April 2020.
  2. "Jacques De Decker". Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique (in French).
  3. "Écrivains présents au congrès de Liège, 19-27 juin 2004". Conseil International d'Études Francophones (in French).
  4. "Jacques De Decker (Toneelstof 70)". Belgium is Happening (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 2017-11-18. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
  5. "Jacques De Decker (1945-2020)". L'Echo (in French). 13 April 2020.
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