Paul Verhaeghen

Paul Verhaeghen (* 1965 in Lokeren ) is a Belgian writer and cognitive psychologist . Verhaeghen writes in the Flemish variant of Dutch and is currently working at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta , USA .

Life

Verhaeghen was born in Lokeren, Belgium and grew up in Aalst and Koksijde . He attended high school at Sankt Josef-Kolleg in Aalst, where he was taught by Jesuits . He studied theoretical psychology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven until 1989. In 1994 he received his doctorate with the thesis Teaching old dogs new memory tricks: plasticity in episodic memory performance in old age . Verhaeghen worked at the Center for Developmental Psychology in Leuven until 1997. From 1997 to 2007 he was employed in the Department of Psychology at Syracuse University, New York, initially as an assistant professor and since 2003 as an associate professor . He has been with the Georgia Institute of Technology since 2007 .

In addition to his work as a cognitive psychologist, Verhaeghen is active as a writer. His debut novel Lichtenberg (1996) is about a young man searching in vain for harmony. This was followed in 2004 by Omega Minor , an encyclopedic novel about the aftermath of betrayal in World War II . This novel has won several awards.

Works

• Lichtenberg (1996) novel
• VenusBergVariaties (with Isabelle Rossaert , 1999) Letters and Stories
• Omega Minor (2004) novel

Translations

• Omega Minor , German 2006, Eichborn Verlag
• Omega Minor , English 2007, Dalkey Archive Press , translated by Verhaeghen himself.
• Omega mineur , French 2010, Cherche-midi.

Awards

• 1997: ASLK Debuutprijs
• 2005: F. Bordewijk Prize
• 2006: Culture Prize from the Flemish Government
• 2007: Literature Prize for Prose of the United Flemish Provinces
• 2008: Independent Foreign Fiction Prize .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DAI-C 55/03, p. 1018, fall 1994
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 8, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ http://www.vlaamsbrabant.be/vrije-tijd-cultuur/cultuur/literatuur/literatuurprijs/
4. ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/independent-foreign-fiction-prize-goodbye-to-berlin-823357.html
5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2008) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Literature by and about Paul Verhaeghen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Paul Verhaeghen and his novel Omega Minor at independent.co.uk