Erik Spinoy

(Sint-Niklaas, 1960) is professor of modern Dutch literature at the University of Liège. He obtained his doctorate in Louvain with a thesis on the work of Paul van Ostaijen, gathered a following being an editor with the literary magazine Yang and was at the inception of Freespace Nieuwzuid. Discursive machine for cultural critique and amusement. After the double anthology Golden Boys with Dirk van Bastelaere, Spinoy published De jagers in de sneeuw (The hunters in the snow) which won him the Flemish Prize for Best Literary Debut. This was followed by Susette, for which he received the Hugues C. Pernath Award and Fratsen (Caprices). After a ten-year silence Spinoy started publishing books of poetry in Boze wolven (Angry wolves),which led to the Prize for Literature of the Flemish Provinces, L, which resulted in the Literary Award of the Province of West-Flanders and Ik, en andere gedichten (I and other poems). Spinoy's seventh book of poetry, Dode kamer (Dead room, Bezige Bij Antwerpen, 2011), was nominated for the VSB poetry award, owing to its uniform high quality’.