Burke Nicholson Lunch Invite
with special guest Jacques de Decker
Friday, March 11, 2005
12:00pm
Le Giverny at the Emory Inn
1641 Clifton Road
Jacques De Decker, born in Brussels in 1945, is a versatile writer. A Germanist trained at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, he has taught at the Royal Conservatory. De Decker has also been a prolific literary critic for over twenty years: since 1971, he has collaborated with the Belgium’s largest francophone daily newspaper Le Soir. His works are also found in a wide variety of other publications, notably the Magazine Littéraire. De Decker is also the author of many diverse essays: “Les années critiques” (1990), “En lisant, en écoutant” (1996), “La brosse à relire” (1999), and “Un baggage poétique pour le 3ième millénaire” (2002), which received the Robert Giron Scholarship from the jury of the Prix Interallié. An author, he has written “La Grande Roue” (Grasset, 1985), “Parades amoureuses “ (Grasset, 1990), and “La ventre de la baleine” (Labor, 1996), which has been translated into Dutch, Spanish, and Romanian. De Decker is also a playwright whose pieces have been performed worldwide, as far as Australia. A translator as well, he is responsible for the French versions of Shakespeare, Goethe, Marlowe, Kleist, Schnitzler, Wedekind, and other contemporary English, Dutch, and German authors. De Decker runs “Beaumarchais” in Paris, the association in charge of cultural programming at the Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs dramatiques. In Brussels, he also is at the helm of the Belgian section of the Institut International du Théâtre (UNESCO). Since January 2002, he has been the Secrétaire perpétuel of the Académie Royale de Langue et de Littérature Françaises de Belgique.
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