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During World World War II he was employed as a nurse in a hospital in Lübeck in Germany. He worked as a laboratory assistant for a while, and from 1948 up to 1957 he worked as a journalist at Het Handelsblad. From 1957 up to 1978 he worked at the publisher Ontwikkeling (East: Development).
From 1959 until 1983 he was editor, and editorial secretary of the Nieuw Vlaams Tijdschrift.
From 1966 up to 1978 he also taught at the Hoger Rijksinstituut voor Toneelen Cultuurspreiding in Brussels. In 1979, he established himself as a full-time writer in the Vaucluse (France).
He died, aged 89, in Le Barroux.
1958 - Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord for Het afscheid. 1977 – Prijs van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap voor Proza—then named Driejaarlijkse Staatsprijs voor verhalend proza—for Een tuin tussen hond en wolf 1990 – Emile Bernheim-prijs for his works 1993 - Prijs van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap 2012 - America Award from The Contemporary Arts Educational Project "for his lifetime contribution to international writing". Previous winners of this "alternatif Nobel Prize in Literature" were, amongst others, Harold Pinter (1995), Peter Handke (2002), José Saramago (2004) en Javier Marías (2010).
