Paul Verhaeghen

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

Life

Verhaeghen was born in Lokeren, Belgium, and grew up in Aalst and Koksijde. He attended high school at St. Joseph's College in Aalst, where he was taught by Jesuits. He studied theoretical psychology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven to 1989 1994 he received his doctorate with the work of Teaching old dogs new tricks memory. Plasticity in episodic memory performance in old age. Verhaeghen worked until 1997 in Leuven at the Center for Developmental Psychology. From 1997 to 2007 he worked at the Department of Psychology, Syracuse University, New York, employed as Assistant Professor and since 2003 as an associate professor. Since 2007 he works at the Gorgias Institute of Technology.

In addition to his work as a cognitive psychologist Verhaeghen is active as a writer. His debut novel Lichtenberg ( 1996) is about a vain seeking for harmony young man. Followed in 2004, Omega Minor, an encyclopedic novel about the consequences of treason during 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

• Omega Minor, German 2006 Eichborn Verlag
• Omega Minor, English 2007, Dalkey Archive Press, translated by Verhaeghen itself

Awards

• ASLK Debuutprijs (1997)
• Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs (2005)
• Culture Prize of the Flemish Government (2006)
• Literature Prize for prose the combined Flemish provinces (2007)
• Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (2008).