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- Birth nameHugo Leonard Siegfried Raes
- Hugo Raes was born on May 26, 1929 in Antwerpen, Flanders, Belgium. He was a writer, known for Prima service (1982), Kijk op... ongewone humor (1959) and Vergeet niet te lezen (1955). He was married to Marie-Thérèse Vandebotermet. He died on September 23, 2013 in Antwerpen, Flanders, Belgium.
- SpouseMarie-Thérèse Vandebotermet(? - September 23, 2013) (his death, 2 children)
- He chose euthanasia to die.
- One of his sublime novels is 'De verwoesting van Hyperion' (The destruction of Hyperion), a 1978 science-fiction account of the rise and fall of a super civilization.
- During the liberation of Antwerp on September 4, Hugo Raes becomes friends with English and American soldiers. They bring him in contact with English-language literature.
- His book 'The Smáran' won two awards: the Dirk Martens prize of the city of Aalst (1973) and the three-year Belgian State Prize for prose (1975).
- In 1968 is his book 'bankruptcy of debonair' voted the best book of the year 1967.
- Coffee is the drug of the intellectual.
- Happiness is the freedom to keep looking for happiness.
- Everyone is alone, and yet we have friends to have the illusion that we are not alone.
- Diary: book of letters not sent.
- Aesthetism is an oxygen mask against the suffocation.
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