User:Jules Grandgagnage

I am a Flemish writer and retired teacher living in Brasschaat, a town near Antwerp, Belgium, and I hope to be able to contribute something valuable to this project. For about 30 years I worked as a elementary school teacher, meanwhile I took some open university courses in Arts and wrote a few Dutch children books (and one for adults as well). In the late nineties I was a columnist for a Dutch computer magazine ('Netwerk') and worked as a programmer of educational software in my wife's company. I am retired now and enjoy the good life! For me that means playing the saxophone, reading and studying a lot, translating English poems (Shakespeare's sonnets, John Donne), walking my dogs, and contributing to a number of online encyclopaedias. I also write poetry and short stories and some of them where published in literary magazines. I enjoy playing guitar, blues harp and thin whistle, watching old movies, painting still lifes, reading magical realist novelists like Gabriel Garcia Márquez and Isabel Allende and listening to my favourite music (traditional jazz). Life's too short. I do not consider myself to have a real field of expertise, but I do read a lot about philosophy, the occult, jazz and English literature. My language skills: Dutch (mother tongue), English and French (middle level, reading and writing), German (basic, reading), Spanish (basic, reading). (For more information please see my website)

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