Paul Snoek

Edmond André Coralie Schietekat (17 December 1933 – 19 October 1981) pseudonym Paul Snoek, was a Belgian poet.

He was a son of Omer William Schietekat, a textile manufacturer, and Paula Sylvia Snoeck.

In 1961, he married Maria Magdalena Vereecke (Mylène), and together they had three children, a twin Jan and Paul in 1963 and in 1966 Sophie.

He went to high school at the Sint-Lievenscollege in Antwerp and the Sint-Jozef Klein Seminarie in Sint-Niklaas, where he had Anton van Wilderode as a teacher.

During the war his father earned a living making paintings that he sold to the local farmers or exchanged for food.