1. Anne Provoost was born on 26 July 1964 and is a Flemish author.
11 Facts About Anne Provoost
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Anne Provoost was born in the Belgian town of Poperinge.
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Anne Provoost grew up in a family of four children in West Flanders and went on to pursue Germanic studies at the linked universities of Kortrijk and Leuven.
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Anne Provoost continued her education with a one-year course in pedagogics and then, having married Manu Claeys, went to join him in Minneapolis, where he was studying American literature.
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Anne Provoost returned to Belgium in 1989 and worked part-time for an international exchange organisation, but after the success of her second novel, Falling, she decided to become a full-time writer.
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Anne Provoost is known for remaking myths, folk tales, fairy tales, and bible stories.
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Apart from being a novelist, Provoost writes essays on literature and children's literature as well as short stories.
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Anne Provoost was made a member of Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature in 2003.
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Anne Provoost is counted as a novelist for young adults and her stories are usually related by youngsters from their slightly puzzled point of view.
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In 1997 Anne Provoost retold the fairy tale of Beauty and the Beast in The Rose and the Swine, set in mediaeval Antwerp.
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Anne Provoost's father has died after a fall from a horse and the mother tries but fails to keep the farm going.