Stefan Hertmans

Stefan Hertmans (born 1951 in Ghent, Belgium) is a Flemish Belgian writer. He was head of a study centre at University College Ghent and affiliated researcher of the Ghent University. He won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs in 2002 for the novel Als op de eerste dag. Hertmans has published six novels, two-story collections, six essay books and twelve collections of poetry. He has also written a collection of essays on theatre, Het zwijgen van de tragedy, which won the Five Year Prize for Essay for Literature and Literature in 2007. He is the author of several books of poetry, including 'The Tail of the Magpie', a selection of twenty poems in Modern Poems in Madison, USA, 1997, and 'The Book of Revelation', a short story in The Review of contemporary Fiction (Illinois) (summer 1994), which was taken as the motto for Rupert Thomson's novel The book of Revelation. His novels include 'To Merelbeke' and 'Steden – verhalen onderweg', a novel in an autobiographical key.