Eric Verpaele (

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, 2 February 1952 –

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, 10 August 2015),

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: Eriek Verpale) was a Belgian writer. He attended a boarding school in Oostakker and studied Germanic and Slavic philology at the

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. He was an editor of the magazine ''Koebel'', several literary magazines and the (). He made his literary debut as a poet with neoromantic poems in ''Polder- en andere gedichten'' (1975). His maternal great-grandmother was of jiddisch

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ancestry, and the

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and Eastern European literature play an important role in his work.

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* De rabbi en andere verhalen (1975) * Polder- en andere gedichten (1975) * Voor een simpel ogenblik maar ... (1976) * Een meisje uit Odessa (1979) * Op de trappen van Algiers (1980) * Alles in het klein (1990) * Onder vier ogen (1992) * Olivetti 82 (1993) * Nachten van Beiroet (1994) * De patatten zijn geschild (1995) * Grasland (1996) * Gitta (1997) * Katse nachten (2000)

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Eriek Verpale

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* 1952 births 2015 deaths Belgian people of Polish-Jewish descent Flemish poets 20th-century Belgian poets People from Zelzate {{Belgium-writer-stub

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