Rita Demeester

Rita Bertha Maria Demeester (26 September 1946 – 29 January 1993) was a Belgian poet and writer. She was born at Roeselare.

She obtained a degree in social pedagogy from the Catholic University of Leuven.

She worked as an educationalist, but started writing when she became unemployed in 1986. Demeester died at Genk in 1993.

• 1989 - Rabobank Lenteprijs voor Literatuur for In het spoor van Jim Morrison