While on his way to a literary colloquium with several other Flemish and Dutch poets and writers (amongst them Hugo Claus, Anna Enquist and Gerrit Komrij), Herman de Coninck collapsed in the streets of Lisbon, Portugal on May 22, 1997.
While en route to a literary gathering of Flemish and Dutch poets and writers (including Hugo Claus, Anna Enquist, and Gerrit Komrij), Herman de Coninck suffered a medical emergency in the streets of Lisbon, Portugal on May 22, 1997.