Monika van Paemel
Monika, Baroness van Paemel is a Belgian writer. Born in Poesele, at age 14 she attended the Heilig Graf boarding school in Turnhout, where she graduated in commercial sciences. In 1963, she married Theo Butsen, whom she divorced some years later. Together they had two daughters, but one of them died aged seventeen.
On 16 July 1993, she was knighted and became a baroness.Awards
