its contradicting extremes, he took into consideration. In 1946, he became co-founder and Director of the Nieuw Vlaams Tijdschrift and he founded the Studio van het Nationaal Toneel in Antwerp, which would later become the famous Studio Herman Teirlinck. He wanted to create a renewal of the education of actors. With the essay Pointering 48 of 1948, he wrote the basic program for the school. The final foundation of the educational principles of the Studio was written down in the Dramatisch Peripatetikon in 1959. In 1951 he created the Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord. In Het gevecht met de engel (E: The fight with the angel), the unavoidability of destiny was emphasized (1952). His last novel Zelfportret of Het galgemaal appeared in 1955, which was an exercise in self-reflection. Mijol Club In 1912, he founded the literary club De Mijol Club (also M.C, Magna Carta, or Marie Jolles Club), of which , August Vermeylen, , and Ernest Claes were members. They gathered at the tavern 3 Fonteinen in Beersel (which still exists). Mijol is the name of a game played in a tray with cobblestones. Honours 1923 :Officer in the Order of the Crown, by royal Decree of 21.7.1923. Other awards Belgian National Award for theatre (1925 and 1928), Belgian National Award for his entire oeuvre (1950), Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren (Belgium and the Netherlands) in 1956. Dr Honoris Causas Universite Libre de Bruxelles (1938), Dr Honoris Causas University of Amsterdam (1947), Dr Honoris Causas University of Liège (1954) Dr Honoris Causas University of Ghent (1959) Bibliography Verzen (1900; poems) Landelijke historiën (1901; novel) De wonderbare wereld (1902; novel) Het stille gesternte (1903; novel) 't Bedrijf van den kwade (1904; novel) De doolage (1905; novel) Zon, een bundel beschrijvingen (1906; essays) De kroonluchter, kunstgenootschap (1907; novel) Het avontuurlijk leven van Lieven Cordaat (1908) Mijnheer J.B. Serjanszoon, orator didacticus (1908; novel) Het ivoren aapje (1909; novel) Johan Doxa, `Vier herinneringen aan een Brabantschen Gothieker' (1917; novel) De Nieuwe Uilenspiegel of de jongste incarnatie van den scharlaken Thijl (1920; bewerking van het oude volksverhaal) De vertraagde film (1922; theatre) Ik dien (1924; theatre) De man zonder lijf (1925; theatre) De wonderlijke mei (1925; theatre) De leemen torens (1928; novel in letters met Karel van de Woestijne) De ekster op de galg (1937; theatre) Elckerlyc (1937) Ave (1938; theatre) Maria Speermalie, 1875–1937 (1940; novel) De XXXX brieven aan Rolande (1944) Het gevecht met