Jean-Pierre Verheggen (6 June 1942 – 8 November 2023) was a Belgian author and poet.
Biography
Born in
Gembloux on 6 June 1942, Verheggen began contributing to ' in the 1970s alongside . He was also a French teacher at the Athénée Royal de Gembloux for the first three years of secondary education. In 1990, he was an advisor to Minister of Culture
Bernard Anselme
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Biography
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Verheggen's works centered around oral poetry and humor, with images of cruelty, voluptuousness, politics, social issues, and linguistics. The ''Alphabet des lettres françaises de Belgique'' commented on his poetry, saying "His poetry is above all a parody of poetry, a radical critique of the ideology that this genre conveys and a burlesque pastiche of its conventions. From there, in 1968 he developed the concept of rewriting and applied its effects to broader fields of investigation, ranging from comics to the most stereotypical political language, including the perversion of a language by another, in this case classic and academic French through his maternal Walloon, wild and sexual.".
In 1995, he was awarded the for ''Ridiculum vitae''.
In 2005, he published ''Portraits crachés'', a collection of portraits of fictional and nonfictional Belgian characters, such as
Salvatore Adamo
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and
Tintin
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''The Adventures of Tintin''
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** Tintin (character), a fictional character in the series
** ''The Adventures of Tintin'' (film), 2011, ...
, in collaboration with
Pierre Kroll
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References
Bibliography
* Numa Sadoul
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, , , , , , , , and . In 2009, he was awarded for ''L'Oral et Hardi'', which was directed by
Jacques Bonnaffé
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Debut
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. On 12 June 2011, he was awarded the Prix for poetry at the festival in
Saint-Malo
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The walled city had a long history of piracy, earning much wealth from local extortion and overseas adventures. In 1944, the Alli ...
for the collection ''Poète bin qu'oui, poète bin qu'non ?''.
Jean-Pierre Verheggen died in
Wavre on 8 November 2023, at the age of 81.
Decorations
*Commander of the (2003)
Works
*''La Grande Mitraque'' (1968)
*''Le Grand Cacaphone'' (1974)
*''Le Degré Zorro de l'écriture'' (1978)
*''Divan le Terrible'' (1979)
*''Vie et mort pornographiques de madame Mao'' (1981)
*''Ninietzsche, peau d'chien'' (1983)
*''Stabat mater'' (1986)
*''Les Folies belgères'' (1990)
*''Artaud Rimbur'' (1990)
*''Pubères, putains, Stabat mater, Porches, porchers'' (1991)
*''Orthographe 1er, roi sans faute'' (1992)
*''Ridiculum vitæ'' (1994)
*''Opéré bouffe'' (1998)
*''Entre zut et zen'' (1999)
*''On n'est pas sérieux quand on a 117 ans : zuteries'' (2001)
*''Gisella'' (2004)
*''Du même auteur chez le même éditeur'' (2004)
*''Amour, j'écris ton nom'' (2005)
*''Portraits crachés'' (2005)
*''L'Idiot du Vieil-Âge : (Excentries)'' (2006)
*''Sodome et Grammaire'' (2008)
*''Phallus et Morilles'' (2009)
*''Poète bin qu'oui, poète bin qu'non ?'' (2011)
*''Un jour, je serai Prix Nobelge'' (2013)
*''Ça n'langage que moi'' (2015)
*''Ma petite poésie ne connaît pas la crise'' (2017)
*''Pubers, pietenpakkers - Pubères, putains'' (2018)
*''Le Sourire de Mona Dialysa'' (2023)
References
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1942 births
2023 deaths
20th-century Belgian writers
21st-century Belgian writers
People from Gembloux