Belgian poet and playwright (born 1958)
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| Born | Tom Emiel Gerardine Aloïs Lanoye
(1958-08-27)27 August 1958 (age 67)
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| Occupations | novelist, poet |
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Tom Lanoye (/lɑːnwɑː/; born 27 August 1958) is a Belgian novelist, poet, columnist, screenwriter and playwright. He is one of the most widely read and honoured authors in his language area (the Netherlands and Flanders), and makes regular appearances at all the major European theatre festivals. He was born inSint-Niklaas.
Lanoye was the youngest son of a butcher. He attended the catholic Sint-Jozef-Klein-Seminarie College inSint-Niklaas. At the time it was a single-sex boys' school. He studied Germanic Philology and Sociology atGhent University. Still a student, he self-published his first work. In his own words, 'Just like all the punk bands did in those days: out of dissatisfaction with the existing structures, and to learn the trade from the inside out'.
Lanoye lives and works in Antwerp andCape Town (South Africa). His literary work has been published and/or performed in over fifteen languages.
In 1985 Lanoye published his prose debut, the semi-autobiographical novelEen slagerszoon met een brilletje (A Butcher's Son with Spectacles). His other books includeAlles moet weg (Everything Has To Go) (1988), the melancholy coming-of-age novelKartonnen dozen (Cardboard Boxes) (1991) and the trilogy comprisingHet Goddelijke Monster (The Divine Monster),Zwarte tranen (Black Tears) andBoze tongen (Spiteful Tongues) which describes the disintegration of a rich and corrupt Belgian family. A ten-part television series based on this trilogy was broadcast on 'Eén', the Flemish public broadcaster's main channel, in autumn 2011.
Lanoye has made an impression as a contemporary dramatist abroad with his 12-hour verse adaptation of eight ofShakespeare's history plays entitledTen Oorlog (To War) (1997). It has been performed in German at theSalzburg Festival and later on in several German stagings and cities. Several of his other plays — he wrote more than thirty — have been played at great festivals in Avignon, Amsterdam, Vienna, Paris and the Ruhr.
Lanoye started out as an enfant terrible, but has become an established writer who devotes himself to all forms of text and writing, for books, newspapers, periodicals and printed matter as well as for plays, cabaret and vocal performances, in any form whatsoever and in the broadest sense of the word' (a quote from the articles of association of his company, the LLC L.A.N.O.Y.E., set up in 1992).
In theatres he regularly performs literary shows, more like theatrical monologues than lectures.
Several of his books and plays won prizes. In 2007 he was granted theGouden Ganzenveer for his entire collection of work and received an honorary doctorate from Antwerp University. In 2013 he again received a prize for his 'oeuvre so far' — theConstantijn Huygens Prize, the most important one in the Dutch language area.
His 2006 novelHet derde huwelijk was adapted by film directorDavid Lambert for the 2018 filmThird Wedding (Troisièmes noces).[1]
- 1980 –Maar nog zo goed als nieuw (poetry)
- 1981 –Neon! Een elegisch rockgedicht (poetry)
- 1982 –Gent-Wevelgem (poetry)
- 1983 –De nagelaten gedichten (poetry)
- 1983 –De glazen klomp (poetry)
- 1983 –Rozegeur en Maneschijn (essays)
- 1984 –In de piste (poetry)
- 1984 –Bagger (poetry)
- 1985 –Een slagerszoon met een brilletje (stories)
- 1986 –Het cirkus van de slechte smaak (criticism)
- 1988 –Alles moet weg (novel)
- 1989 –Vroeger was ik beter (essays)
- 1989 –De Canadese Muur (play, written withHerman Brusselmans)
- 1989 –Gespleten en bescheten (criticism)
- 1990 –Hanestaart (poetry)
- 1991 –Kartonnen dozen (novel)
- 1991 –Blankenberge (play)
- 1991 –Bij Jules en Alice (play)
- 1992 –Doen! (columns/essays)
- 1993 –De schoonheid van een total loss (play)
- 1993 –Celibaat (play, after Gerard Walschap)
- 1994 –Spek en bonen (stories)
- 1994 –Maten en gewichten (criticism)
- 1997 –Het goddelijke monster (novel)
- 1997 –Ten oorlog (play lasting 12 hours. Lanoye wrote this together with Luk Perceval, afterThe War of the Roses by Shakespeare. In Germany it was performed under the titleSchlachten!)
- 1999 –Zwarte Tranen (novel)
- 2001 –Tekst & uitleg/Woorden met vleugels (criticism)
- 2001 –Mamma Medea (play, afterEuripides andApollonius of Rhodes)
- 2002 –Niemands Land. Gedichten uit de Groote Oorlog, Prometheus, Amsterdam (including a free translation ofWilfred Owen's 1917 poemDulce et Decorum est)
- 2002 –Boze Tongen (novel, 2003Golden Owl Public Prize and 2005 Inktaap Award)
- 2003 –Veldslag voor een man alleen (play)
- 2004 –Diplodocus Deks (play)
- 2004 –De Jossen (play)
- 2004 –Overkant (poetry)
- 2004 –Het vroegste vitriool (criticism)
- 2004 –Vitriool voor gevorderden (criticism)
- 2005 –Stadsgedichten (poetry); includes the poems and speeches he wrote as the first City poet ofAntwerp (2003-2004)
- 2005 –De meeste gedichten (poetry)
- 2005 –Fort Europa (play)
- 2006 –Mijn Vriend Laarmans door Tom Lanoye/Mijn vriend Boorman doorArnon Grunberg (two letters)
- 2006 –Het derde huwelijk (novel)
- 2006 –Mefisto for ever (play, freely adapted from theKlaus Mann's novel Mephisto)
- 2007 –Schermutseling (criticism)
- 2008 –Atropa. De wraak van de vrede (play, freely adapted fromEuripides,George W. Bush,Donald Rumsfeld andCurzio Malaparte)
- 2008 –Woest (solo performance)
- 2008 –Alles eender (ganzenpas) (play)
- 2009 –Sprakeloos (novel)
- 2011 –Bloed en Rozen (play)
- 2011 –De Russen! Ivanov meets Platonov (play, freely adapted fromAnton Chekhov)
- 2012 –Heldere hemel (based on the aircraft accident nearKortrijk)
- 2013 -Gelukkige Slaven (novel)
- 2014 -Hamlet vs Hamlet (play, based onShakespeare)
- 2015 –Koningin Lear (play, based onShakespeare)
- 2015 –Revue Ravage. Death of a politician (play)
- 2015 –Gaz. Pleidooi van een gedoemde moeder (novella/monologue)
- 2016 –Revue Lanoye. Filippica(criticism)
- 2017 –Zuivering (novel)
- 2017 –De felomstreden kroon en deerniswekkende dood van koning Edward II & zijn favoriet jonkheer Gaveston, onder wiens betovering hij zich afkeerde van zijn koningin en kroonprins, tot steeds grotere woede van de verzamelde adel en het voor de rest onwetende gewone volk (Christopher Marlowe)
- 2018 –Lanoye 60. Groepsportret met brilletje (scrapbook)
- 2019 -Vrij - wij? (Poetry gift, free publication for Poetry Week, a national promotional campaign in the Low Countries)
- 2019 -Verloren vader (play forTheater Na de Dam)
- 2019 -Wie is bang (play)
- 2019 -Hendrik VI & Margaretha di Napoli (play)
- 2022 -De draaischijf (novel)
- 2022 -OustFaust (play, based on Goethe)
- 2022 -Bonaparte. Monoloog met demonen (libretto)
- 2022 -De störm (play, based on Shakespeare)
- 1992 –Humo's Golden Bookmark forKartonnen dozen
- 1998 – Océ Podium Prize forTen oorlog
- 1998 – Proscenium Prize forTen oorlog
- 1998 –Humo's Golden Bookmark forHet goddelijke monster
- 2000 – Innovationspreis Theatertreffen Berlin forSchlachten! (Ten oorlog)
- 2000 – TheGolden Owl Public Prize forZwarte Tranen
- 2000 –Humo's Golden Bookmark forZwarte Tranen
- 2003 – TheGolden Owl Literature Prize forBoze Tongen
- 2007 – TheGouden Ganzenveer for his oeuvre
- 2007 – Honorary Doctorate from theUniversity of Antwerp
- 2010 – TheGolden Owl Public Prize forSprakeloos
- 2011 – The Henriette Roland Holst Prize forSprakeloos
- 2013 – theConstantijn Huygens Prize for his oeuvre
- 2024 – Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren
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