Dutch writer and poet: Gerard Kornelis van het Reve

Writer and poet Gerard Reve spent the last years of his life in the art village of Machelen-aan-de-Leie. He is also buried there in the new cemetery on Veerstraat.

On the side of atelier Martin Wallaert - heritage site Villa ter Ide, the poem "Credo" by Gerard Reve is displayed in the public space.

More information about writer and poet Gerard Reve

Funeral

The grave of Reve

Reve was buried on April 15 2006 at the New Cemetery on Hoevestraat in Machelen-aan-de-Leie. Before the burial, a funeral service^[9] took place in the parish church of Saint Michael Cornelius and Ghislenius.^[10] During this, Pastor Gabriël Desmaele^[11] delivered a homily. Reve had envisioned a special spot in a corner of the cemetery, but he was buried in the so-called 'honorary section' in the middle of the cemetery. In that section, a man had already been buried in 1982 who drowned while saving a child from drowning. In November 2006, the simple wooden cross that was placed immediately after the burial was replaced by a blue-pearl granite grave monument with the text: Here rests in peace Gerard Reve. On the lying stone, it says I love you.

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