Patrick Conrad

Patrick Conrad (born 16 July 1945 in Antwerp) is a Flemish poet, screenwriter and novelist, and one of the founders of The Pink Poets. He also directed about twenty movies for cinema and television, including – selected for the Cannes Festival – Mascara with Charlotte Rampling and Michael Sarazin. He is also working as a painter and had two retrospective exhibitions of his work: in 1975 (Museum of Fine Arts of Antwerp) and 2005 (Museum Elzenveld, Antwerp). He lives in Provence, in the south of France.

Bibliography

• Cezar and Jezabel (poems) (1963)
• Ik lig in de dalai-lama (poems) (1964)
• Rose mon chameau (poems) (1965)
• Een pop van Patrick Conrad met Pola Negri in de rol van Eleonora (poems) (1966)
• Mercantile marine engineering (poems) (1967)
• 11 Sad Songs for Edward Kienholz (poems) (1971)
• De kleine dood van Kasper Q. (novel) (1971)
• Allegria! Allegria! (short stories) (1972)
• Continental Hotel of De duisternis der dingen loert (poems) (1975)
• Le déjeuner sur l'herbe (poems) (1975)
• Requiem (poems) (1975)
• Hugues C. Pernath (essay) (1976)
• La mort s'appelle bonsoir (poems) (1977)
• Roxy's Roxane (illustrated script) (1981)
• De vernieling (poems) (1985)
• De tranen van Mary Pickford (poems) (1991)
• Ba! (novel) (1993)
• Limousine (Thriller) (1994)
• Bloemlezing uit de poëzie van Patrick Conrad (book about Conrad by Daan Carstens with a choice of poems) (1995)
• Louisiana (thriller) (1996)
• Annalen (poems) (1998)
• Luwte (thriller) (1998)
• Op de Franse duinen (thriller) (1998)
• Good morning, Hoboken (thriller) (1999)
• Cargo (thriller) (2000)
• Slachtvee (novelization of his movie) (1980)
• De Aap van God (thriller) (2001)
• Starr (thriller) (2006)
• Leven en werk van Marcel Van Acker (Illustrated novel) (2009)
• Getande raadsels (essay about Hugo Claus) (2009)
• Perdida's Droom (Roman Noir) (2010)
• "De Geur van de Maan" (roman noir) (2012)
• "Tango Assasino" (roman noir) (2013)
• "De onvoltooide roamance van Ediapaso Gianovoltare" (Thriller) 2014

Some of Conrads work has been translated in the UK (Random House), the U.S.A. (Viking Press) and Germany (Verlagshaus n°8) In 2012 Starr was published by Bitter Lemon Press under the title NO SALE (Translation Jonathan Lynn);

Filmography

• Les wagons verts-réséda (1967) Director
• Un soir, un train (1968) Actor – Le maître d'hôtel
• Slijk (1972) Director
• Slachtvee (1979) Director/Writer
• Een vrouw tussen hond en wolf (1979) Actor – Fregoli
• Ieder mens die sterft is een museum dat brandt (1982) Director
• Maria Danneels (of het leven dat we droomden) (1982) Actor
• Parlez-moi d'amour (1983) Director
• Na de liefde (1983) Actor – Guido
• L'agenda d'Agenor (1983) Director
• Permeke (1985) Director) Writer
• Mascara (1987) Director) Writer
• Hector (1987) Actor – Filmregisseur
• Het sacrament (1990) Producer

Awards

Literature

• 1969 – Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord
• 1971 – Poetry prize of 'De Vlaamse Gids'
• 1976 – Poetry prize of de Province of Antwerp
• 2008 – Diamant Bullit Award (Best Thriller of the Netherlands and Belgium) for Starr.

Film

• 1967 Prize of the experimental short movie for Les wagons verts-réséda, Benelux Filmfestival.
• 1985 Prize of the video production for Parlez-moi d'amour, festival of Nyons, Switzerland.
• 1985 Oecumenique Prize for Parlez-moi d'amour, Festival of Nyons, Switzerland.
• 1986 Grand prix for Parlez-moi d'amour, Festival Video Réalité, Brussels.
• 1985 Special Prize of the Jury for Permeke, festival de Nyons, Switzerland.
• 1985 Prize of the Public for Permeke, festival de Nyons, Switzerland.
• 1985 Prix Femina for Permeke.
• 1985 André Cavens Award – Prize for the best Belgian Movie of the year for Permeke.
• 1986 Bert Leysen Prize (Prize for the best Belgian Television Movie 1985/86) for DadaTristesse.

See also

• 1969 : Sinaal prijs voor poëzie.
• Flemish literature

Sources

• Patrick Conrad op Misdaadauteurs
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• G. J. van Bork en P. J. Verkruijsse, De Nederlandse en Vlaamse auteurs (1985)
• Patrick Conrad at the Internet Movie Database