Eriek Verpale

Eric Verpaele (Zelzate, 2 February 1952 – Ertvelde, 10 August 2015), pseudonym: Eriek Verpale) was a Belgian writer.

He attended a boarding school in Oostakker and studied Germanic and Slavic philology at the University of Ghent.

[1] 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-Jewish ancestry, and the chasidic and Eastern European literature play an important role in his work.

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