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- Birth nameAdhémar Adolphe Louis Martens
- Michel de Ghelderode was born on April 3, 1898 in Elsene, Belgium. He was a writer, known for La familia unida esperando la llegada de Hallewyn (1971), Teatr Polskiego Radia (2004) and Television Theater (1953). He died on April 1, 1962 in Brussels, Belgium.
- Dramatist.
- This prolific wrote more than 60 plays, a hundred stories, a number of articles on art and folklore and more than 20,000 letters.
- His 1934 play La Balade du grand macabre served as inspiration for György Ligeti's opera Le Grand Macabre.
- He died in solitude in 1962, not knowing that he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature.
- In 1939 he stopped writing plays because he felt misunderstood. Afterwards he wrote only prose.
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