Georges van Vrekhem, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Belgian writer
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Place of Birth: Wakken, Flemish Region, Belgium
About Georges van Vrekhem
- Georges Van Vrekhem (Wakken, 28 March 1935 – Auroville, 31 August 2012) was a Flemish (i.e.
- Dutch-speaking) Belgian journalist, poet and playwright, who was the artistic manager of a professional theater company, the "Nederlands Toneel te Gent".
- He became acquainted with the teachings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother in 1964.
- In 1970 he joined the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Puducherry, and eight years later, in 1978 he moved to Auroville.
- He has translated as selected writings from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata and several books of Sri Aurobindo, The Mother, Peter Heehs, and Satprem into Dutch.
- Van Vrekhem died during sleep in his Auroville home in Shakti on 31 August 2012.
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