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- Walter Van Den Broeck was born on March 28, 1941 in Olen, Flanders, Belgium. He was a writer and actor, known for Groenten uit Balen (2011), Blueberry Hill (1989) and Hector (1987). He died on February 5, 2024 in Turnhout, Flanders, Belgium.
- In 1974 he resigned as a teacher and became chief editor of Turnhout Ekspres, and since 1979 he is a member of the editorial team of the Nieuw Vlaams Tijdschrift.
- In 1965, he founded the magazine Heibel with Frans Depeuter and Robin Hannelore.
- He graduated as a teacher in Dutch and History (Lier), and he started his career as a teacher.
- In 2010 he wrote the script for a comic book by Reinhart.
- He became well known through his play Groenten uit Balen and the novel Brief aan Boudewijn, which was succeeded by the tetralogy Het beleg van Laken.
- You are locked up in a room for months and sometimes even years and in the meantime the world continues to evolve
- For me, writing is an attempt not to be there. I dive into another world, and I write there. You could also go on holiday, but that's too cumbersome for me. As long as I'm busy, I feel perfectly happy
- Writing is something that is part of my life functions. Not having inspiration is something I don't understand. You just sit down and write, right?
- I am deeply aware that I will never be able to be anything other than the son of a worker. All my thinking, all my feelings are colored by it.
- One life is really too short to learn to understand life
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