Eriek Verpale, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Eriek Verpale

Flemish writer

Date of Birth: 02-Feb-1952

Place of Birth: Zelzate, Flemish Region, Belgium

Date of Death: 10-Aug-2015

Profession: writer, poet, playwright, author

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

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.
He was an editor of the magazine Koebel, several literary magazines and the Belgisch-Israëlitisch Weekblad (E: Belgian-Israeli Weekly). 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.