- Born
- Died
- Birth nameLeopold Maximiliaan Felix Timmermans
- He was one of the best known Flemish writers during the first period of the 20th century. His works were translated in 16 languages. He was also a painter and a drawer. He illustrated his own publications and also the works of other writers as Tony Bergmann and Ernest Claes. His books are, together with these of Gerard Walschap, Ernest Claes and Stijn Streuvels most filmed in Belgium and the Netherlands.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- SpouseMarieke Janssens(October 12, 1912 - January 24, 1947) (his death, 4 children)
- He was the father of the Flemish author Lia Timmermans, who wrote the book about him titled 'Zo was mijn vader' in 1951.
- He was an autodidact, and wrote plays, historical novels, religious works, and poems.
- Timmermans was born in the Belgian city of Lier, as the thirteenth of fourteen children.
- He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.
- Timmermans also wrote under the pen-name Polleke van Mher.
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