Marcel Moreau

He was born in Boussu, a town in the mining region of Borinage in Hainaut Province, into a working-class environment.

He worked in various trades before becoming an accountant's assistant in Brussels for the newspaper Le Peuple.

Then followed Bannière de bave (Dribble Banner, 1965), La terre infestée d'hommes (Earth Infested with Men, 1966) and Le chant des paroxysmes (The Sound of Paroxysms, 1967).

He travelled widely, to the USSR, India, Cameroon, China, Iran, Nepal, Canada, Mexico, the United States.

Considered a marginal writer with an idiosyncratic style,[citation needed] he was the author of a considerable body of work.