Rita Bertha Maria Demeester (26 September 1946 – 29 January 1993) was a Belgian poet and writer.

Biography

She was born at Roeselare. She obtained a degree in social pedagogy from the Catholic University of Leuven. She worked as an educationalist, but started writing when she became unemployed in 1986. Demeester died at Genk in 1993.

Rita Demeester

Awards

1989 - Rabobank Lenteprijs voor Literatuur for In het spoor van Jim Morrison

Bibliography

1988 - Krappe herinnering

1988 - Vrouwentongen. Verhalen, essays en reisreportages (works of 11 Flemish female writers, composed by Veerle Weverbergh) () 1989 - Stampvoeten in het donker (verhalen) () () 1991 - Droomjager (verhalen) () () 1994 - Land van Belofte (verhalen) () () 1995 - Verzamelde werken () ()

Rita Demeester

See also

Flemish literature

Sources

Rita Demeester in de Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren

1946 births

1993 deaths

People from Roeselare

Flemish writers

KU Leuven alumni

20th-century Belgian women writers

20th-century Belgian writers

Flemish women writers

Rita Demeester