Bibliography
Claus wrote over a thousand pages of poetry, more than sixty plays, over twenty novels and several essays, film scripts, libretti and translations. Only a small part of this œuvre has been translated into English:
- Prose:
- The Duck Hunt, 1955 (De Metsiers, 1950)
- Sister of Earth, 1970 (De Metsiers, 1950)
- The Sorrow of Belgium, 1990 (Het verdriet van België, 1983) (ISBN 1-58567-238-6)
- The Swordfish, 1996 (De Zwaardvis, 1989) (ISBN 0-7206-0985-2)
- Desire, 1997 (Het verlangen, 1978) (ISBN 0-14-025538-9)
- Wonder, 2009 (Der verwondering, 1962) (ISBN 978-0-9800330-1-4)
- Poetry:
- with Karel Appel: Love Song, 1963 (written in English)
- Four Flemish Poets: Hugo Claus, Gust Gils, Paul Snoek, Hugues C. Pernath / edited by Peter Nijmeijer. (1976) (ISBN 0856820342)
- with Pierre Alechinsky and Karel Appel: Two-brush paintings: Their poems by Hugo Claus, 1980 (Zwart, 1978)
- An Evening of postwar poetry of the Netherlands and Flanders : Hugo Claus, Judith Herzberg, Gerrit Kouwenaar, and Cees Nooteboom reading their poems, 1984
- Selected Poems 1953-1973, 1986
- The Sign of the Hamster, 1985 (Het teken van de Hamster, 1964) (ISBN 9071345130)
- Greetings: selected poems, 2004 (ISBN 0151009007)
- Theatre:
- Friday, 1972 (Vrijdag, 1968) (ISBN 0706700511)
- Four Works for the Theatre, 1980 (ISBN 0-9666152-1-2)
- Friday, 1993 (Vrijdag, 1968)
- The sacrament and other plays of forbidden love, 2007 (ISBN 9781575911106)
- Essay:
- Karel Appel, Painter, 1963 (Karel Appel, Schilder, 1964)
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