Paul Verhaeghen
About
Paul Verhaeghen is a Belgian novelist, writing in his native Dutch. His novels include Lichtenberg (1996) and Omega Minor (2004). Omega Minor has been translated into German, English French, and Hungarian. The Dutch version won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs in 2005 and the Culture Award of the Flemish Government (2006), as well as the Award for Prose of the Joint Flemish Provinces (2007). The English translation, done by the author himself, won the 2008 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
