Angèle Manteau

Angèle Georgette Ghislaine Manteau, born in Dinant on 24 January 1911 and died in Aalst on 20 April 2008, was a Belgian publisher.

In the late 1920s, she studied chemistry at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) (Free University of Brussels in English) for a while.

From 1938 to 1970 the Manteau list included the following Flemish writers: Johan Daisne, Louis Paul Boon, Hubert Lampo, Piet van Aken, Hugo Claus, Jos Vandeloo, Ward Ruyslinck, Jef Geeraerts, Paul Snoek, Karel van de Woestijne, Herman Teirlinck, August Vermeylen.

In the late 1970s, she left the publishing house, which, since 1965, had joined the Dutch group Van Goor, and worked for Elsevier in Amsterdam.

In 1998, the former publisher transferred some of her personal literary archives to the National Library of the Netherlands, based in The Hague.