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- Birth nameRaymond Charles Marie de Belser
- Ward Ruyslinck was born on June 17, 1929 in Berchem, Flanders, Belgium. He was a writer and actor, known for Golden Ophelia (1974), De geboorte en dood van Dirk Vandersteen jr. (1968) and Dicht bij het water (1964). He was married to Monika Macken and Alice Burn. He died on October 3, 2014 in Meise, Flanders, Belgium.
- SpousesMonika Macken(1992 - October 3, 2014) (his death)Alice Burn(1953 - 1990) (her death, 1 child)
- In 1980, he was awarded the first Europalia prize for his entire oeuvre.
- In 1957, he published the short story De ontaarde slapers (The depraved sleepers ), about one of his main themes - the unequal battle between individuals and their communities.
- After he finished high school in 1947, he attended the University of Ghent to study Germanic philology. He dropped out after a year, which he has claimed was a consequence of the deep impact on him of the death of his older brother in 1948. He wrote five poems on the occasion of his brother's death, which were distributed among family and friends.
- During the sixties and seventies he traveled a great deal to research magazine articles and visited Poland, the Soviet Union, Canada, and Argentina.
- In 1961, with the novel Het dal van Hinnom, he broke with church and society.
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