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Carême was born in Walloon Brabant in Wavre, then a rural part of Belgium. Although he grew up in a family of modest means - his father was a house painter and his mother a shopkeeper. Carême had a happy childhood, which would be reflected in his work. Carême went to school in his hometown and in 1914 received a scholarship to attend the Normale School in Tienen. It was at this time that he started writing poetry. In 1918 he graduated from the Normale School and was assigned a job as a school teacher in Anderlecht, near Brussels. Carême's poetry gradually became more important in his life and in 1943 he resigned as a teacher to devote himself entirely to writing. He also translated works by Dutch poets into French.
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