In 1925, his family moved to Brussels and he studied at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, then at the Sorbonne.
In 1942, he fled with his family to Manhattan, where he helped edit the Free French magazine Voix de France.
[1] In 1947, with Alexander Koval and Édouard Roditi founded the German-language literary review, Das Lot ("The Sounding Line"), six numbers from October 1947 until June, 1952, with publisher Karl Heinz Henssel in Berlin.
In 1957, Galerie Parnass (Wuppertal) published the Artist's book Micro Macro with poems by Alain Bosquet and lithographs from Heinz Trökes in 50 copies.
He headed the jury of the Max Jacob Prize, the Académie Mallarmé and was a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium.