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- Pierre Mertens (né le 9 octobre 1939 à Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Bruxelles) est un écrivain belge de langue française, docteur en droit, spécialiste du droit international, directeur du Centre de sociologie de la littérature à l'université libre de Bruxelles et critique littéraire au journal Le Soir. En 1989, il est élu membre de l'Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique et nommé chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la République française.En 2009, il reçoit le prix Prince-Pierre-de-Monaco pour l'ensemble de son œuvre.
- Pierre Mertens, (9 de Outubro de 1939) é um escritor belga de expressão francesa. Atualmente faz parte da Academia Belga de Letras.
- Пьер Мертенс (фр. Pierre Mertens, 9 октября 1939, Брюссель) — бельгийский писатель и журналист, пишет на французском языке.
- Pierre Mertens (Bosvoorde, 9 oktober 1939) is een Belgisch schrijver en advocaat in internationaal recht. Daarnaast is hij ook actief als criticus bij Le Soir en als directeur van het Centre de sociologie de la littérature aan de Université Libre de Bruxelles.
- Pierre Mertens (born 9 October 1939) is a Belgian French-speaking writer and lawyer who specializes in international law, director of the Centre de sociologie de la littérature at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and literary critic with the newspaper Le Soir.Influenced by Franz Kafka, Mertens started to publish novels and short stories in 1969 and received the Prix Médicis in 1987 for Les éblouissements. He nevertheless continued his activities as a lawyer, participating in many battles for human rights. In 1989, he entered the Académie royale de langue et littérature de Belgique, and was also named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by France.Mertens has reflected much on the social function of the writer. For him, private life, fiction, and history are inseparable. Thus he grants a central place to the memory in the creation of his works. To him the novelist finds his inspiration in their personal and the historical past. Mertens is particularly marked by the activities of his parents, his father a journalist and music lover and his mother a biologist and pianist. He was also much affected by the German occupation, the execution of the Rosenbergs or the tragedy of the miners of Marcinelle in 1956. Later as a scholar of international law he strongly denounces the genocide in Biafra, torture in Ireland, and the prisons of Pinochet.Another important inspiration is music. In his novels, one finds the influence of music, such as the leitmotifs which cross them (the figure of the tiger, for example). He is also the author of a booklet on opera, La passion de Gilles (1982).His many travels and his extensive education has given him an international perspective. In Les Bons offices (1974) and Terre d'asile (1978), for example, Belgian history is presented from a foreign perspective. Mertens often sees his country as a synthesis of Europe and its problems.He caused a major controversy in his homeland with his book Une paix royale, published in 1995, which tells a fictionalised story of Belgium's royal family, mixing fiction and reality. He was tried and forced to remove a couple of pages from the subsequent editions.
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- Pierre Mertens (né le 9 octobre 1939 à Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Bruxelles) est un écrivain belge de langue française, docteur en droit, spécialiste du droit international, directeur du Centre de sociologie de la littérature à l'université libre de Bruxelles et critique littéraire au journal Le Soir.
- Pierre Mertens, (9 de Outubro de 1939) é um escritor belga de expressão francesa. Atualmente faz parte da Academia Belga de Letras.
- Пьер Мертенс (фр. Pierre Mertens, 9 октября 1939, Брюссель) — бельгийский писатель и журналист, пишет на французском языке.
- Pierre Mertens (Bosvoorde, 9 oktober 1939) is een Belgisch schrijver en advocaat in internationaal recht. Daarnaast is hij ook actief als criticus bij Le Soir en als directeur van het Centre de sociologie de la littérature aan de Université Libre de Bruxelles.
- Pierre Mertens (born 9 October 1939) is a Belgian French-speaking writer and lawyer who specializes in international law, director of the Centre de sociologie de la littérature at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and literary critic with the newspaper Le Soir.Influenced by Franz Kafka, Mertens started to publish novels and short stories in 1969 and received the Prix Médicis in 1987 for Les éblouissements.
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