Leopold Maximiliaan Felix Timmermans (5 July 1886 – 24 January 1947) is a much translated author from Flanders.

[1] Timmermans was born in the Belgian city of Lier, as the thirteenth of fourteen children.

During the first years of the Second World War, Timmermans was editor of the Flemish nationalist Volk.

He also attended meetings of the Europäische Schriftsteller-Vereinigung (European Writers' League), which was initiated by Joseph Goebbels.

Because of this, and because of the Rembrandt prize he received in 1942 from the University of Hamburg, he was seen by many as a collaborator, which may have caused health problems and premature death.