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Hugo Maurice Julien Claus ((:ˈɦyɣoː ˈklʌu̯s); 5 April 1929 – 19 March 2008) was a leading Belgian author who published under his own name as well as various pseudonyms. Claus' literary contributions spanned the genres of drama, the novel, and poetry; he also left a legacy as a painter and film director. He wrote primarily in Dutch, although he also wrote some poetry in English. His death by euthanasia, which is legal in Belgium, led to considerable controversy. ==Life== Hugo Claus was born on 5 April 1929 at Sint-Janshospitaal in Bruges, Belgium.〔("Een virtuoze alleskunner" ) (19 March 2008). ''De Verdieping''. Retrieved 18 June 2010. 〕 He was the eldest of the sons born to Jozef (Joseph) Claus, a printer who had a passion for theater; his mother was Germaine Vanderlinden. Three more sons were born into the family within the subsequent decade: Guido (February 1931 - 9 November 1991), Odo (born January 1934), and Johan (November 1938 - 13 February 2009). Educated at a boarding school, the young Hugo Claus lived in Belgium during the German invasion of the country in World War II. Several of Claus' schoolteachers during the half-decade of the German occupation of the country were right-wing nationalists eager to support the pro-German government; his father was briefly held in custody for pro-German activities after the end of the occupation, and Hugo was himself swayed into supporting the pro-German Flemish fascist youth movement.〔Coetzee, J. M. (24 Feb 2007). ("Stepping Stones". ) ''The Guardian''. Retrieved 17 June 2010.〕 Claus' experience with the wartime nationalist right would later become a source for his 1983 book ''The Sorrow of Belgium'', a novel which tells the story of Claus' alter ego Louis Seynaeve.〔 A sympathizer of the political left at a more mature period in his life, Claus lauded the socialist model after a visit to Cuba in the 1960s.〔 Claus' prominence in literary circles and his debut as a novelist came in 1950, with the publication of his ''De Metsiers'' at age twenty-one. His first published poems had in fact been printed by his father as early as 1947.〔Bloom, Ono (20 March 2008). ("De Vlaamse leeuw is dood: In memoriam Hugo Claus 1929 - 2008" ). ''De Verdieping''. Retrieved 18 June 2010. 〕 He lived in Paris from 1950 until 1952, where he met many of the members of the CoBrA art movement. From February 1953 until the beginning of 1955, Hugo Claus lived in Italy where his girlfriend Elly Overzier (born in 1928) acted in a few films. They were married on 26 May 1955, and had a son, Thomas, on 7 October 1963. In the early 1970s, he had an affair with actress Sylvia Kristel, who was 23 years younger, with whom he had a son, Arthur, in 1975. The relationship ended in 1977, when she left him for actor Ian McShane. He was a "contrarian", of "anarchist spirit". Journalist Guy Duplat recalls that Claus had organized in Knokke the election of a "Miss Knokke Festival", which was a typical beauty contest, except for the Claus ruling that the members of the all-male jury would have to be naked.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hugo Claus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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