Source: National Archives & Historic Records of Belgium
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Felix Timmermans 🇧🇪

Felix Leopold August Timmermans (Known as "The Singer of the Nete")
Beloved Flemish Novelist and Painter, Author of Pallieter and Boerenpsalm
Born Jul 05, 1886 🇧🇪 Lier (Antwerp Province), Belgium
Passed Away Jan 24, 1947 Lier (Antwerp Province), Belgium
Lifespan 60 years old
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"Melk de dag! (Milk the day dry of all its joy, for every morning is a gift from God)."

Archival Overview

Beloved Flemish novelist and illustrator whose jubilant 1916 novel Pallieter celebrated the epicurean joy of living and whose Boerenpsalm (1935) immortalized the peasant faith of the Kempen region.

Biographical Record

After surviving a life-threatening illness in his youth, Timmermans experienced an overwhelming spiritual renaissance of gratitude for life. In 1916, amidst the horrors of World War I, he published Pallieter, an explosion of joyful sensualism, lush feasts, and sunny pastoral love along the Nete River.

The book became an international best-seller, turning 'pallieteren' into a Dutch word meaning to enjoy life to the absolute fullest. His later works, including Boerenpsalm and his historical novel Pieter Bruegel (1928), showed profound spiritual tenderness.

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Final Resting Place

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Lier Kloosterheide Cemetery
Lier (Antwerp Province), Belgium
GPS: 51.1311, 4.5700
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