{"id":48031,"date":"2018-08-03T14:39:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T14:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/brigitte-raskin\/"},"modified":"2018-08-03T14:39:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T14:39:07","slug":"brigitte-raskin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/en\/brigitte-raskin\/","title":{"rendered":"Brigitte Raskin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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BRIGITTE RASKIN, one of the most important Flemish women writers, comes from Aarschot. She has a degree in history and is a journalist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brigitte Raskin exchanged her combined career as journalist and teacher for writing after her debut Het koekoeksjong was awarded the AKO Literature Prize in 1989 and the Prize of the Flemish Reader in 1990. Historical research is usually also the starting point for her literary work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AFSCHEID VAN STEEN <\/strong>: Het domein van de kindertijd <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The autobiographical stories in Afscheid van steen are set in seemingly banal Aarschot, a city of chocolate, after the brown ironstone from which the church and the facades of the town houses are built. Brigitte Raskin returns to this town and the house of her childhood in many ways. Walking through memories, she tenderly but resolutely leaves the domain of childhood behind her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DE EEUW VAN DE EKSTER <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The life story of the writer\u2019s uncle, Father Raskin (1892-1943), who was a missionary in China. In the Second World War he became an army chaplain, sent messages to England, was imprisoned by the Germans and beheaded. Brigitte Raskin visited the places where her uncle lived and worked and travelled to China in 1991.
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Father Raskin is a local hero (his statue stands in Aarschot) and like every hero he is a problematic figure. In her attempts to put that problem into words, Brigitte Raskin comes ever closer to a truth that is at once very intimate and for all time.
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HET KOEKOEKSJONG –<\/strong> \u2018A penetrating picture of the past half<\/strong> century\u2019<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

AKO Literature Prize <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prize of the Flemish Reader<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Then began the endless wandering of Frans, the \u2018cuckoo chick\u2019, from a step-grandfather to homes, rented rooms and prisons.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA person can be dead as a doornail like Frans Maes, or live on like my mother in memory. One dead person is not the other..\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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DE GESTOLEN PRINSES – The life of Princess Isabella (1501-1526) <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An older woman tells how she once cut a piece out of an old painting in the town hall of Mechelen. Why she did this slowly becomes clear and appears to have everything to do with her fascination with the life of Princess Isabella, the younger sister of Charles V. The story of this unhappy princess is based on facts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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