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 (transl. Belgian-Israeli Weekly).^[1]

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.

• 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)

• Flemish literature
• Bernard, a feature film made of the monologue "Olivetti" 82 can be freely watched online.^[2]

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• Eriek Verpale

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