What is Alice Nahon?
[[File:AliceNahon1930s.tif|thumb|Alice Nahon]] '''Alice Nahon''' (16 August 1896, [[Antwerp]] – 21 May 1933, Antwerp) was a [[Belgians|Belgian]] [[poet]]. Her father was born in the [[Netherlands]] in a [[French people|French]] family. Her mother came from Putte nearby [[Mechelen]]. As a young woman she suffered from [[chronic bronchitis]], but this was wrongly [[diagnose]]d as [[tuberculosis]]. This is the reason she spent many years in [[hospital]]s. She studied and graduated in [[agriculture]]. Alice also began studying to be a [[nurse]]. At the same time she studied [[literature]]. She was also [[librarian]] in Mechelen. At the end of her life she lived in the medieval castle [[Cantecroy]] in [[Mortsel]], a [[suburb]] of Antwerp. She is especially remembered for her poem ''Avondliedeke'' (English: Little Evening Song). This poem is a classic on ethical and mystic evening meditation. == Works == *Vondelingskens (1920) *Op zachte vooikens (1921) *Schaduw (1928) *Maart-April (1936) {{DEFAULTSORT:Nahon, Alice}} [[Category:1896 births]] [[Category:1833 deaths]] [[Category:Belgian poets]] [[Category:Disease-related deaths in Belgium]] [[Category:Writers from Antwerp]]