famous work Houtekiet (1939). His novel Zwart en wit (E: black and white) of 1948, deals with the collaboration (Nazi-Collaborators were called blacks in Belgium, and resistance fighters whites) with Nazism and the repression after World War II. Zuster Virgilia, of 1951, deals with the eternal fight between faith and disbelief. In his book Oproer in Kongo (E: Revolt in Congo) from 1953, he wrote about colonialism, which he conceived after along journey through Belgian Congo in 1951. As a writer he reveals his own inner self in Het gastmaal (1966) en Het avondmaal (E: Dinner) (1968), by using a modernistic writing style. He received several literary prizes, among which in 1968, the Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren, and in 1975 he was knighted and made a Baron. Honours Grand Cross in the Order of Leopold II Grand officer in the Order of Leopold Grand Officer in the Order of the Crown. Bibliography Liederen van leed (1923, poetry) Flirt (1924, theatre) Levens' vier seizoenen (1924, theatre) De looze streken van Slimke Gazelle (1924, children's story) Dies irae (1924, theatre) Lente (1924, theatre) De loutering (1925, poetry) De vuurproef (1925, theatre, together with Frans Delbeke) Franciscus en de jongeren (1926, article) Maskaroen (1927, theatre) Slimke. Een boekje voor kinderen (1927) Waldo (1928, novel) Adalaïde (1929, novel) Volk (1930, stories) (including : Leven de grafmaker – Teugels' Gust – De goddeloosheid van Soo Kommer – Petrus) De dood in het dorp (1930, verhalen) (omvattend : De neutrale pastoor – Leven van Soo Moereman – Het verlangen van Stieneke – J. De Soete, barbier, estaminet – De meester – Huybrechs-Bergé – Soo De Kommer – De Mops – Het onnozel leven van Gielen – Het droevig leven van Rozeke – Leven van Zjeppen – Die van Cuypers) Uitingen in de moderne wereldletterkunde (1930, essay) Eric (1931, novel) Nooit meer oorlog (1931, pamphlet) Jan Frans Cantré (1932, monography) Carla (1933, novel) Trouwen (1933, novel) Celibaat (1934, novel) De vierde koning (1935, story) Een mens van goede wil (1936, novel) De kermis te Pontosie (1937, theatre) De Spaansche gebroeders (1937, theatre) Sybille (1938, novel) Het kind (1939, novel) De familie Roothooft (Adelaïde, Eric, Carla) (1939, novel) Houtekiet (1939, novel) Vaarwel dan ! (1940, brochure) Bejegening van Christus (1940, novel) De wereld van Soo Moereman (1941, story) Zotje Petotje (1941, children's story) Gansje Kwak (1942, children's story) Denise (1942, novel) Genezing door aspirine (1942, story) Voorpostgevechten (1943,