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Werner Lambersy

Werner Lambersy’s works are out there! They have been performed in concert in ’s-Hertogenbosch, Beijing, Birmingham, Bogotá, Brussels, Cagliari, Castelo Branco, Cologne, Corfu, Crest, Denton, Dieulefit, Ghent, Karlsruhe, Leicester, Lisbon, Louvain-la-Neuve, Manchester, Marseille, Mons, Montpellier, Montréal, Paris, Roubaix, Saint-Denis, Santiago, São Paulo, Seattle, Sheffield, Strasbourg, Thessaloniki, Troy, Vienna, Vorst, Weimar and Wrocław…

Werner Lambersy lives and works in Paris (France), where he is in charge of promoting the French literature of Belgium. He is primarily a pœt, one of the foremost in French-speaking Belgium today. While ranging in tone and form from the utterly spare to the full and ample, his pœtry—of which about 40 volumes have been published—spins out one continuous meditation on self-effacement through love (from the carnal to the mystic) and through writing. His major book so far, Maîtres et maisons de thé (Masters and Tea Houses, 1979), is widely regarded as one of the great achievements in post-war French pœtry for its splendid imagery and sustained profundity of vision. Another of his books, Quoique mon cœur en gronde… (1985) is available in a bilingual edition in Canada under the title Despite my Growling Heart (Guernica 1990, with a translation by Daniel De Bruycker).

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Werner Lambersy

Antwerp (Belgium), 1941 – Paris (France), 2021

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Werner Lambersy [Photo: Jean Pol Stercq]
Werner Lambersy [Photo: Jean Pol Stercq]

Calendar

Broadcasts

Date Work Programme
March 14, 2021 Annette Vande Gorne / Werner Lambersy, Déluges et autres péripéties (2014-15), 28:00 #748 / Framework Radio (Estonia)
March 3, 2021 Annette Vande Gorne / Werner Lambersy, Déluges et autres péripéties (2014-15), 28:00 [5m29s] Zeit-Ton: Rückblick, Vorschau und aktuelle Veröffentlichungen / ÖRF Radio Österreich 1 (Austria)
January 8, 2021 Annette Vande Gorne / Werner Lambersy, Déluges et autres péripéties (2014-15), 28:00 Generation Bip Hop / Jet FM 91.2 (France)
January 7, 2021 Annette Vande Gorne / Werner Lambersy, Déluges et autres péripéties (2014-15), 28:00 Indie Drome / Campus Grenoble 90.8 (France)
January 7, 2021 Annette Vande Gorne / Werner Lambersy, Déluges et autres péripéties (2014-15), 28:00 Indie_drome / Éko des Garrigues 88.5 (France)
January 7, 2021 Annette Vande Gorne / Werner Lambersy, Déluges et autres péripéties (2014-15), 28:00 Radio FMR 89.1 Toulouse (France)
January 6, 2021 Annette Vande Gorne / Werner Lambersy, Déluges et autres péripéties (2014-15), 28:00 Radio Dijon Campus 92.2 (France)
January 5, 2021 Annette Vande Gorne / Werner Lambersy, Déluges et autres péripéties (2014-15), 28:00 Indiedrome / Radio Panik 105.4 (Belgium)
April 8, 2020 Annette Vande Gorne / Werner Lambersy, Yawar Fiesta (2006-12), 87:28 Radio Horizon 93.9 FM (South Africa)
February 4, 2020 Annette Vande Gorne / Werner Lambersy, Déluges et autres péripéties (2014-15), 28:00 Epsilonia / Radio Libertaire 89.4 Paris (France)
May 14, 2019 Annette Vande Gorne / Werner Lambersy, Yawar Fiesta: Taureau (Le défi) (2006-12), 30:55 Radio Horizon 93.9 FM (South Africa)
November 7, 2017 Annette Vande Gorne / Werner Lambersy, Yawar Fiesta: Monologue final (2006), 12:17 Cosmogol 999: 152 Nouvelles du front / Jet FM 91.2 (France)