Director Adil El Arbi is filming Dirk Bracke’s books: “His soul will certainly be present on the set of our new film”

De Bel came into contact with him early in Bracke’s career. “When Dirk felt the urge to start as an author, he occasionally came to one of my lectures at a school. He wanted to do that too, and learned the trade that way. We clicked immediately,” she says. he.

“Dirk wrote for a slightly older audience: he addressed teenagers in high school, I first focused on primary school students. What we had in common? We both loved to write, did a lot of research, and liked to talk directly with our audience We were on the same wavelength, like good colleagues,” says de Bel. “Whether we were literary or not, we didn’t care. It feels very strange that he is no longer there.”

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