Writers from Brussels

Russian revolutionary and writer (1890-1947)

Belgian writer and filmmaker

Belgian princess, youngest child of Leopold III of Belgium and Lilian, Princess of Réthy

Belgian philosopher of law (1912-1984)

Belgian philosopher (1923–2022)

Belgian author

Marxist theorist (1924–1994)

Flemish writer and noble (1540-1598)

Belgian philosopher

French political scientist and historian (1934–2025)

screenwriter (1903–1975)

French writer (1877-1937)

Spanish poet

Belgian writer, man of letters, art historian, professor and politician (1872-1945)

Islamic scholar

Belgian Holocaust survivor and writer (1926–2020)

Belgian comics script writer (1957-2019)

writer (1928–2007)

Belgian writer (1925–2017)

art critic, lawyer, writer (1856–1919)

Belgian egyptologist (1877–1947)

Belgian composer of contemporary music

Belgian art historian (1870–1926)

Belgian film director and screenwriter

Belgian educator and feminist (1806–1854)

Belgian historian and archivist (1817-1898)

Belgian writer (1881-1972)

British novelist and literary critic (1923–2012)

Belgian historian

British author

Belgian poet and critic (1865-1948)

Belgian historian (1818-1888)

English novelist (1865–1940)

Belgian philosopher

Composer and piano maker (1812–1862)

soldier, writer (1906–1997)

Poet and painter (1927-2012)

Belgian writer

humorist, journalist, writer from Brussels, Belgium

French philosopher & scholar

Belgian playwright, poet and author (1878–1953)

comics writer

founder of the first feminist christian movement in Belgium

Belgian poet and writer (1859-1922)

Canadian sociologist

Belgian poet, painter and art critic (1851-1916)

Bessora (born 1968, Brussels, Belgium) is a novelist and short story writer. After a career in international finance in Geneva, she studied anthropology and wrote her first novel. Since 1999 Bessora has published a book a year on average, mainly through the publishing group Gallimard. Her books have been translated into several languages. Bessora has been awarded the Fénéon Prize in 2001 for her novel Ink Stains, and the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire in 2007 for her novel Pick Me Pretty Sirs, and the Swiss Literature Prize and Prix Kourouma for Vous, les ancêtres.

Flemish-Belgian and Dutch writer, semiologist, art critic and experimental film director

Belgian opera librettist (1846-1920)

Belgian poet (1873-1952)

Belgian journalist

Belgian writer (1940-2021)

French publisher and poet (1925–2011)

American novelist (1928–2018)

Italian writer, lecturer, editor

Belgian writer (1737-1802)

Belgian politician (1805–1883)

Belgian philosopher (1944-2021)

Belgian writer (1900-1996)