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Eriek Verpale
Eriek Verpale
Eric Verpaele (Zelzate
Zelzate () is a municipality located in the Belgian province of East Flanders. The municipality only comprises the town of Zelzate proper. In 2021, Zelzate had a total population of 13,124. The total area is 13.71 km2.
Zelzate is divided in ...
, 2 February 1952 – Ertvelde
Ertvelde is a village of the Belgian municipality of Evergem.
Eddy Wally used to have his legendary show venue in the village-centre, called "Paris, Las Vegas".
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, 10 August 2015) pseudonym
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Eriek Verpale was a Belgian writer. He attended a boarding school in Oostakker
Oostakker (), formerly spelled Oostacker, is one of the smaller former municipalities which were merged into Ghent (from which it is only two miles), the capital of the Belgian province of East Flanders. The hamlet is mainly known for the Shrine of ...
and studied Germanic and Slavic philology at the University of Ghent
Ghent University ( nl, Universiteit Gent, abbreviated as UGent) is a public research university located in Ghent, Belgium.
Established before the state of Belgium itself, the university was founded by the Dutch King William I in 1817, when the ...
. He was an editor of the magazine ''Koebel'', several literary magazines and the ''Belgisch-Israëlitisch Weekblad'' (E: Belgian-Israeli Weekly).
He made his literary debut as a poet with neoromantic poems in ''Polder- en andere gedichten'' (1975). His maternal great-grandmother was of jiddisch Polish
Polish may refer to:
* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Poles
Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, w ...
-Jewish
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ancestry, and the chasidic and Eastern European literature play an important role in his work.
Bibliography
* De rabbi en andere verhalen (1975) * Polder- en andere gedichten (1975) * Voor een simpel ogenblik maar ... (1976) * Een meisje uit Odessa (1979) * Op de trappen van Algiers (1980) * Alles in het klein (1990) * Onder vier ogen (1992) * Olivetti 82 (1993) * Nachten van Beiroet (1994) * De patatten zijn geschild (1995) * Grasland (1996) * Gitta (1997) * Katse nachten (2000)See also
*Flemish literature Flemish literature is literature from Flanders, historically a region comprising parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. Until the early 19th century, this literature was regarded as an integral part of Dutch literature. After Bel ...
* ''Bernard'', a feature film made of the monologue "Olivetti" 82 can be freely watched online.
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External links
* 1952 births 2015 deaths Belgian people of Polish-Jewish descent Flemish poets 20th-century Belgian poets People from Zelzate {{Belgium-writer-stub