Belgian writer Hugo Claus deceased.

[camoclock is a great man]

Hugo Maurice Julien Claus (April 5, 1929 in Bruges, Belgium, March 19, 2008 in Antwerp, Belgium) was a Flemish novelist, poet, playwright, painter and film director. He was considered to be one of the most important contemporary Dutch language authors.[attribution needed]

Hugo Claus was born in Bruges. Under the pseudonym Dorothea van Male, he published the novel Schola Nostra (1971). He also used the pseudonyms Jan Hyoens and Thea Streiner.

In 1983, he published Het verdriet van België ("The Sorrow of Belgium"), which is probably his most famous book.

Claus was also a dramatist. He has written 35 original pieces and 31 translations from English, Greek, Latin, French, Spanish and Dutch plays and novels.

Hugo Claus had been connected with the Nobel Prize in Literature for several years, but he claimed to have given up hope of ever receiving it.

Claus suffered from Alzheimer's disease and requested his life to be terminated through euthanasia in the Middelheim Ziekenhuis in Antwerp on March 19, 2008

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[ChickenClock]

That's what he gets for giving Het Verdriet van België such a shitty ending. >: (

[BreadfruitClock]

Hes not the only guy i have never heard of who died recently!

[camoclock is a great man]

O and the guy who wrote 2001: A Space Oddysey died as well

[Bigglesnoots]

Maybe he'll get a postuum reward or something.

[joliet_jane]

Euthanasia?  I guess that's all right.  It's sad when someone who's known for having a brilliant mind starts to lose it.