René Henoumont

René Henoumont was a Belgian journalist and writer.

After studying art and archeology, he joined the Resistance. It is thanks to Hubert Rassart, a socialist and resistant politician who would play a role in the constitution of a Walloon separatist Government, that he began to work as a journalist at the World of Work, a left-wing daily; born of the Resistance. He also wrote for Wallonia Free a story illustrated by Victor Hubinon, the draftsman of Buck Danny.

From 1950 to 1953, he worked as a journalist at La Meuse. 1950 is the year of the Royal Question, the assassination of Julien Lahaut, the invasion of South Korea by North Korea and the reaction of the United Nations which sends troops, mainly American, under the command of MacArthur . In May 1952, he did an interview with Georges Simenon returning from America. After having worked also at the INR and RTBF, to the modernization of which he participates at the time of the World Expo of 1958, he would commit himself to the Pourquoi Pas? (hebdo) in 1965 until the disappearance of it in 1988. He would work at the Mosquito where he will be the editor and at Soir Mag.

In December 2007, he inaugurated the new central library René Henoumont in Herstal, his native town. It will have a Fonds René Henoumont, since the author has decided to leave all his archives.

He dies on September 9 , 2009 after a heart attack.