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.