Paul Colinet was born in Arquennes, Belgium on May 2, 1898, and he was a Belgian surrealist. Between 1910 and 1912, he stayed in Lier, Flanders, which allowed him to become fluent in Dutch. In 1934, he met the Surrealists Magritte, Scutenaire , and Mesens . In 1935, he participated in the “Surrealist Exhibition” in La Louvière . In 1936 , he published several poems set to music in Brussels. In 1940, Paul Colinet and Georgette Magritte ended their relationship, which had begun when Magritte fell in love in 1936 with the British artist Sheila Legge (creator of a performance in Trafalgar Square during the International Surrealist Exhibition in London).
In 1945, Paul Colinet directed the weekly Le Ciel Bleu and collaborated on La terre n’est pas une vallée de larmes and then, in 1946 and 1947, on the magazine Les deux sœurs by Christian Dotremont , as well as on the magazine Les Quatre Vents.
In November 1949, Paul Colinet began work on Vendredi to send news of his Surrealist friends to his nephew Robert Willems, who had been sent to the Congo . One hundred handwritten issues, containing numerous drawings, were sent to him until October 1951. Contributors included Pierre Alechinsky , Christian Dotremont , Irène Hamoir , Marcel Lecomte , Marcel Mariën , Paul Nougé , Camille Goemans , Marcel and Gabriel Piqueray , Louis Scutenaire and René Magritte (Colinet’s relationship with the painter had been broken for a long time due to his affair with Georgette Magritte).
Paul Colinet died in Forest-lez-Bruxelles, Belgium on December 23, 1957. Le Histoires de la Lamp (1942) and La Manivelle du Chateau (1954) were the only collections of his poetry published during his lifetime.
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