Hilde Vandermeeren és a női flamand krimi helyzete
Hilde Vandermeeren: Female Flemish Crime Fiction Writer

Summary/Abstract: Flemish crime fiction is, as an institutionalized genre, a rather recent phenomenon. It is generally claimed that the Flemish version of the genre was popularized by the work of Jef Geeraerts. The fact that Flemish crime fiction did not really exist as a separate literary category, in spite of the importance of crime fiction in francophone Belgium as well as the long tradition of crime fiction in The Netherlands, is a further proof of the limits of literary contacts between neighbors sharing the same nationality (Dutch-speaking and French-speaking Belgians) or the same language. A well-known, much translated and multiple prize-winning author of children’s literature, Hilde Vandermeeren is the author of six standalone works of crime fiction. The position of these works in the larger field of Flemish fiction is very singular. Hilde Vandermeeren explicitly rejects the strongly male-biased tone and style of the godfather of the genre in Flanders, namely Jef Geeraerts, she also abandons the somewhat mechanical choice of local settings. The current situation of her work is therefore also a good illustration of the difficulties of exceeding the initial limitations of a given cultural context.

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