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Belgian writer (1906?1994)
Irene Hamoir
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Born
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1906-07-25
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25 July 1906
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Died
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(1994-05-17)
(aged 87)
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Irene Hamoir
(25 July 1906 – 17 May 1994) was a
Belgian
novelist
and
poet
, the leading female member of the Belgian
surrealist
movement. Her poetry was published under the
pen name
Irine
, and she appeared as
Lorrie
in the writings of her husband,
Louis Scutenaire
, and the works of
Rene Magritte
.
Biography
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Born in
Saint-Gilles, Belgium
into a family with ties to the
circus
, she worked as a secretary. As an adolescent, Hamoir was already militant in the Young Socialist Guards. Then in 1928, she met the Brussels surrealists (she would later portray then in rough outline as hooligans in her novel
Boulevard Jacqmain
[1953]; reprinted in 1996 by the Editions Devillez).
[1]
She wrote her first poem,
Metallique
in 1925. At that time she first became involved with the burgeoning Belgian surrealist group forming around artists such as Magritte,
Marc. Eemans
[
nl
]
, Scutenaire,
Marcel Marien
, and
Paul Nouge
. She married Louis Scutenaire in 1930. Her poems and tales, highly fantastical, were first collected in 1949 in a thin volume with a print run of 200 copies under the pseudonym Irine; in 1976, the collection
Corne de brune
featured her contributions to periodicals and collective works, as well as the prefaces she wrote for her friends: this volume would enable one to better appreciate her humor.
[2]
After Scutenaire's death in 1987, she published her recollections of their life together as
Ma vie avec Scut
. She died in
Watermael-Boitsfort
in 1994.
Irene Harmoir legated the Belgium Museum of Fine Art with surrealistic works, such as these by Marc.
Selected works
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Poetry
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- (in French)
Œuvre poetique (1930?1945)
, [published under the pen name Irine]. Saint-Generou pres Saint Julien de Voventes: Maitre Francois, 1949.
- (in French)
Ithos
, [published anonymously], ill. Claudine Jamagne. Leyden: 1971.
- (in French)
L'Orichalcienne.
La Louviere: Daily Bul, 1972.
- (in French)
Corne de brune (1925?1976)
, ills Rene Magritte, Rachel Baes, Danielle, Jane Graverol & Claudine Jamagne. Brussels: Isy Brachot et Tom Gutt, 1976.
- (in French)
Le Comparse en fleurs et des aigrelettes.
Paris: Editions de l'Orycte, 1977.
Prose
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- (in French)
La Cuve infernale.
Brussels: Editions Lumiere, 1944.
- (in French)
Boulevard Jacqmain.
reprinted Brussels: Didier Devillez, 1996.
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La Cuve infernale, Nouvelles, edition augmentee.
Brussels: Editions Brassa, 1987.
- (in French)
Question a une tourterelle turque.
Brussels: 1989.
- (in French)
Croquis de rue.
Bassac: Plein Chant, 1992.
References
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- ^
Durozoi, Gerard (2002).
History of the Surrealist Movement
. Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago. p. 673.
ISBN
0-226-17412-3
.
- ^
Durozoi, Gerard (2002).
History of the Surrealist Movement
. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. p. 673.
ISBN
0-226-17412-3
.
Sources
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- Dewandeleer, Cecile, "HAMOIR, Irene..." in E. Gubin, C. Jacques, V. Piette & J. Puissant (eds),
Dictionnaire des femmes belges: XIX
e
et XX
e
siecles.
Bruxelles: Editions Racine, 2006.
ISBN
2-87386-434-6
Further reading
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- (in French)
Marcel Marien,
L'Activite surrealiste en Belgique (1924?1960).
Brussels: Editions Lebeer Hossmann, 1979.
- (in French)
Le mouvement surrealiste a Bruxelles et en Wallonie (1924?1947).
Paris: Centre Culturel Wallonie Bruxelles, 1988.
- (in French)
Irene Hamoir
, Evelyn Delkop-Kornelis, Virginie Devillez & Micheline Colin, in
Irene, Scut, Magritte and Co
, Brussels:
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
, 1996 (pp. 20?67).
External links
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- Media related to
Irene Hamoir
at Wikimedia Commons
- Magritte :
Irene Hamoir
, 1936 (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium)
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- Magritte :
Irene Hamoir
, 1948 (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium)
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