Eriek Verpale

Who is Eriek Verpale?

Eric Verpaele pseudonym Eriek Verpale is 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.

He made his literary debut as a poet with neoromantic poems in Polder- en andere gedichten. His maternal great-grandmother was of jiddisch Polish-Jewish ancestry, and the chasidic and Eastern European literature play an important role in his work.