COPPENS, Jan, Karel van Deuren & Piet Thomas. Stijn Streuvels fotograaf. Ghent & Brussels, 1994.
<b>1889 ca - 1905 / Avelghem</b> Franciscus (Frank) Petrus Maria Lateur, known by his pseudonym Stijn Streuvels, ° 3.10.1871; + 15.8.1969. Flemish writer known for his rural fiction on social themes. Initially a baker. First constructed his own primitive camera, then bought his first commercial camera in about 1900. <b>1905 * - 1914 > Anzegem - Ingooigem</b> Documented rural life of the sort that informed and populated his novels. Remained an enthusiastic photographer in the interwar period, buying a Leica in 1932. Streuvels' archives and collection of glass plate negatives, previously housed in the Provinicial Library and Culture Archive, Bruges, have been entrusted to the "Letterenhuis" in Antwerp, where they are now housed.