{"id":3693,"date":"2020-04-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=3693"},"modified":"2020-06-12T15:56:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T15:56:36","slug":"marcel-moreau-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=3693","title":{"rendered":"Marcel Moreau, writer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Marcel Moreau – a fancophone Belgian writer – died on 4 April, 2020 due to COVID-19.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Moreau was born in Boussu, a town in  the mining region of Borinage, in the Hainaut Province, into a working class environment in which there was, as he put it himself, a pure cultural void, a total absence of any cultural reference point”.  He lost his father at the age of fifteen, and abandoned his studies a short time later. He worked in various trades before becoming an accountant’s assistant in Brussels for the newspaper Le Peuple. In 1955 he became a proof-reader for the daily Le Soir.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

In 1963 he published his first novel, Quintes, notably praised by Simone de Beauvoir.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Considered a marginal writer with an idiosyncratic style, he was the author of a considerable body of work.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

He died in Bobigny (a suburb of Paris), on April 4,2020, of COVID-19 during the pandemic.<\/p>\r\n<\/p>

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Moreau was born in Boussu, a town in  the mining region of Borinage, in the Hainaut Province, into a working class environment in which there was, as he put it himself, a pure cultural void, a total absence of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[110,46,7019],"tags":[6299,6300,782],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/imageholder\/uploads\/marcel-moreau-c844499e-f0dc-41b4-81f4-dfd47802768-resize-750.jpeg?fit=%2C&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3531,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=3531","url_meta":{"origin":3693,"position":0},"title":"Dora Werzberg, nurse & social worker","date":"April 2, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Dora Werzberg Amelan, a French nurse and social worker, succumbed to Covid-19 on 1 April 2020. \u00a0 In 1942, she rescued Jewish children through \u0152uvre de secours aux enfants (OSE). 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