Colette Nys-Mazure

Colette Nys-Mazure (born 14 May 1939) is a Belgian poet, essayist, playwright, and novelist writing in French.

She was born in Wavre.

Following the death of her parents, she moved to Tournai.

She also writes books for young people and essays. Her work has been translated into English, German, Polish, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Czech, Swedish and other languages.

Selected works La vie à foison, poetry (1975) D'amour et de cendre, poetry (1977) Pénétrance, poetry (1981), received the Haute enfance, poetry (1990), received the Grand Prix de Poésie pour la Jeunesse awarded by the French Ministry of National Education, Youth and Sports Singulières et plurielles, poetry (1992) Tous locataires, play (1993) with La Criée d'aube, poetry (1995) Le For intérieur, poetry (1996), received the Prix de Poésie Contes d’espérance, short stories (1998) Dix minutes pour écrire, play (2002) Seuils de Loire, poetry (2003) Sans y toucher, short stories (2004), received the Perdre pied, novel (2008)