Hubert Lampo
Belgian writer
Died when: 85 years 314 days (1030 months)Star Sign: Virgo
Hubert Leon Lampo (Antwerp, 1 September 1920 – Essen, 12 July 2006) was a Flemish writer, one of the founders of magic realism in Flanders.
His most famous book is De komst van Joachim Stiller ("The coming of Joachim Stiller", 1960), in which a mysterious person, named Joachim Stiller, appears as a redeemer, under circumstances reminiscent of the death of Jesus.
Other themes that occur in Lampo's work are the myths of Orpheus, Atlantis and the Holy Grail.
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