Among modern writers, Franz Errens (188 1~ 1972) has both realistic and magical realistic styles. He once founded a literary periodical and organized a "Monday party" for Brussels writers, with the participation of Robert Vivie (1894~), Charles Presnier (1896~ 1952) and Marie Gervais (1882). Famous novelists constance Bognor (1892~ 1975), George Lanzer, Marcel Tilly and Lv Xian Christopher also wrote many poems. The novelist George Simenon's works are good at analyzing criminals' psychology. In addition, a group of young and middle-aged writers such as Fran? ois Malei Jorris (1930~) and Pierre Maytans (1939~) are also quite influential.
Among the poets, René Webb (1892~ 1955) is good at writing love poems. Armand Bainier (1902~ 1969) wrote a collection of lyric poems The Transparent World (1956). Other poets include Henry Mishaw (1899~), Maurice Kalem, Edmund Wandell Carmon (190 1~ 1980) and Adrian Jenkins (1905 ~).
Among the playwrights, Fernand krom Ranke's plays (1886~ 1970) were mainly staged in the 1920s and 1930s. The plays written by Michel de Gerdrod (1898~ 1962) include various genres of tragedy and comedy. In addition, there are Ermenc Clausin, George Sian, Shaer Bertan, etc.
Flemish is the local language of Belgium. 1893, the Flemish magazine Today and Tomorrow came out in Brussels, which played an important role in promoting the development of Flemish national literature. August Vermaelen (1872~ 1945), one of the founders, wrote a lot of works, involving literature, art, politics, philosophy and other aspects. His Jewish Wandering Forever (1906) is an important symbolic novel in the history of Flemish literature. Cyril Boyce (1859~ 1932), another representative writer of the modern system, has written the novel The Law of the Strongest (1893), The Poor (1902) and the play The Parmell Family. Stein Strewels (187 1~ 1969) is a famous novelist. His representative works, Flax Field (1907) and Workers (19 13), describe the slave-like labor of poor farm workers.
Karel van de Ustenar (1878~ 1929) is a symbolic poet, and he has been writing for today and tomorrow since 1897. Poems such as Shadow of Gold Coin (19 10) and Tramp (192 1) are pessimistic and world-weary, and the prose Death of a Farmer shows his various talents. Herman Teirlinck (1879~ 1967) also published poems and essays in Today and Tomorrow magazine. He is also a symbolist writer, who has written poetry collection The Sun (1906), novel The Activities of Bad Men (1904), ivory monkeys and so on. His plays Slow Motion Movie (1922) and The Magpie on the gallows (1937) have promoted expressionist plays. 1956 was awarded the Dutch literature prize by Belgium and the Netherlands for the first time. The main novels of Felix Timmermans (1886~ 1947) are Balier (19 16), anna marie (1920) and The Poems of Farmers (/kloc).
After the First World War, Antwerp's Cosmic Literature magazine (1920~ 192 1) united a group of young writers. The poet Paul Van Oster (1896~ 1928) is the pioneer of Flemish literary modernism. He constantly changed his creative methods and adopted futurism, Dadaism, Expressionism and Integralism. His poetry collections include Signal (19 18) and Busy City (192 1). Wes Mons is also an influential poet. His collection of poems preaches religious morality and belief in human love. René de Clake (1877 ~1932) is good at writing folk songs and war songs. His early works have social content, such as the collection of poems Facts (1909), and his later works are based on the Bible. Maurice Rolenc (1895~ 1966) has published four novels, including Life of Our Dreams (193 1). He is good at describing the inner world of the petty bourgeoisie. Gé rard Val Sharp is a prolific writer. His novels, such as Hotkit (1939), are concise and focused on describing morbid and abnormal characters. William Elsholt's social novels (1882~ 1960) are ingenious in conception and good at exposing swindlers and adventurers with satirical style. Marnix Heather is a critic, a Dutch literary historian, and also writes poems and travel notes. The novels of Lord Chilins (190 1~ 1944) describe the miserable life of the poor, and also reveal pessimism. The masterpiece Mom, Why Are We Living (1934) caused great repercussions.
John Deissner (19 12~), a modern writer, is the pioneer of "magical realism" in Flemish literature. His masterpiece is the novel The Bald Man (1947). He is also a poet, playwright and literary critic. Louis Paul Boon (19 12~) wrote many novels showing the conflict between individuals and society. Some novels by Peter Van Acker (1920~) describe the life of workers and peasants. Huber Rambo's novels (1920~) are similar to Deissner's novels, and fantasy and reality are intertwined. Xu Ge Kraus (1929~), an existentialist writer, poet and dramatist, has written novels such as Duck Hunting (195 1) and Empty-handed Man (1957). Others are Xu Ge Lars (1929~) and Wald Ruischlink (1929~).