Hubert Lampo

Hubert Leon Lampo was a Flemish writer, one of the founders of magic realism in Flanders. His most famous book is De komst van Joachim Stiller, in which a mysterious person, named Joachim Stiller, appears as a redeemer, under circumstances reminiscent of the death of Jesus. Other themes that occur in Lampo's work are the myths of Orpheus, Atlantis and the Holy Grail.