Erwin Mortier (born 28 November 1965) is a Dutch-language Belgian author.

Spending his youth in Hansbeke, he later moved to nearby Ghent, where he became city poet (2005–2006).

[1] Mortier came out of the closet with A plea for sinning, a collection of essays (2003).

[4] Other non-fiction included Evenings on the Estate: Travelling with Gerard Reve (2007), and A farewell to Congo: Back to the equator with Jef Geeraerts (2010).

He translated war prose by Ellen N. La Motte, Mary Borden and Enid Bagnold in Dutch, and produced the first Dutch translation of Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts.