Biography

In 1974 he resigned as a teacher and became chief editor of Turnhout Ekspres, and since 1979 he is a member of the editorial team of the Nieuw Vlaams Tijdschrift.

In 1965, he founded the magazine Heibel with Frans Depeuter and Robin Hannelore.

He graduated as a teacher in Dutch and History (Lier), and he started his career as a teacher.

In 2010 he wrote the script for a comic book by Reinhart.

He became well known through his play Groenten uit Balen and the novel Brief aan Boudewijn, which was succeeded by the tetralogy Het beleg van Laken.

You are locked up in a room for months and sometimes even years and in the meantime the world continues to evolve

For me, writing is an attempt not to be there. I dive into another world, and I write there. You could also go on holiday, but that's too cumbersome for me. As long as I'm busy, I feel perfectly happy

Writing is something that is part of my life functions. Not having inspiration is something I don't understand. You just sit down and write, right?

I am deeply aware that I will never be able to be anything other than the son of a worker. All my thinking, all my feelings are colored by it.

One life is really too short to learn to understand life