BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
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Erwin Mortier (1965) spent his childhood in the village of Nevele, in the vicinity of his native city of Ghent. After graduating in the history of the arts and archaeology, he worked as scientific assistant in the Dr Guislain Museum for the history of Psychiatry.
SOME REVIEWS
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"This is a Bildungsroman which is related to much European literature from Proust and Mann onwards. It is very sparsely populated with things and incidents, but what there are are peculiarly unforgettable, as though the memories of Anton's body have been acquired by the reader."
A.S. Byatt on My Fellow Skin, in The Guardian
WHAT IS PAST IS JUST BEGINNING
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What is past is just beginning, a Radio Book
The series Radio Books is an initiative of the Flemish-Dutch Huis de Buren in Brussels, in association with the Flemish radio broadcaster Klara and Radio Netherlands Worldwide. Mortier presented his contribution for Radio Books in Antwerp on World Book Day in April 2009. It’s a contemplative and very personal ode to books and those who read them.