Belgian poet and art critic. A disabled war veteran, Charles Conrardy studied architecture in Great Britain and then, on his return to Brussels, became librarian at the Academy of Fine Arts. He was part of the group of writers who came together in the 1920s around the journal La Renaissance d'Occident which was headed by Maurice Gauchez. He wrote several "tragedy-farces" like Hamlet ou le Triomphe de la vertu (1925), or Promethée déchaîné ou le bonheur de l'humanité (1926).