When he had finished his studies he wrote his first novel, Ik ben maar een neger ("I'm just a negro"), which put him on the map as extremely controversial.
[2] He wrote more of these politically motivated colonial books before he started his Gangreen series.
Nowadays, he is a celebrated crime-novelist and several of his books (De zaak Alzheimer and Dossier K) have been filmed.
In the last years of his life he lived in Baarle (Drongen) [nl],[1] part of Ghent.
[3][failed verification] (incomplete list) The town of Antwerp mounted a memory plate on the birth house of Geeraerts.