Erwin Mortier

{{short description|Dutch-language Belgian author (born 1965)}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1965|11|28}}

| birth_place = Nevele, Belgium

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| nationality = Belgian

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| occupation = writer, poet, essayist

| partner = Lieven Vandenhaute (late 1980s—present)[http://www.nieuwsblad.be/SportWereld/cnt/KB2HR1JC Erwin Mortier eerste Vlaming in 20 jaar die AKO Literatuurprijs wint] Het Nieuwsblad 12 November 2009

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Erwin Mortier (born 28 November 1965) is a Dutch-language Belgian author. Spending his youth in Hansbeke, he later moved to nearby Ghent, where he became city poet (2005–2006).[http://www.nieuwsblad.be/article/detail.aspx?articleid=GDGBM2A2 Erwin Mortier wordt nieuwe stadsdichter] Het Nieuwsblad 14 January 2005

He wrote as a columnist for newspapers like De Morgen and published several novels:

• Marcel (1999) – {{ISBN|2-213-61352-4}}
• My Fellow Skin – {{ISBN|1-84343-046-0}}
• Shutter Speed – {{ISBN|1-84343-172-6}}
• While the Gods Were Sleeping (2008)

Collections of his poetry were published from 2001 on.

Among the literary prizes awarded to Mortier there are debut prizes in Belgium and in the Netherlands for Marcel, in 2002 the C. Buddingh' prize for his debut in poetry,{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20140617142835/http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/activity/page/24147/Winnaars-juryleden-genomineerden C. BUDDINGH PRIZE — Sinds 1988]}} Poetry International Rotterdam: "2002 – Erwin Mortier met Vergeten licht" and in 2009 the AKO Literatuurprijs for While the Gods Were Sleeping.

Mortier came out of the closet with A plea for sinning, a collection of essays (2003).[http://www.erwinmortier.be/node/137 BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: How to be as immodest as possible] at {{URL|erwinmortier.be}} Other non-fiction included Evenings on the Estate: Travelling with Gerard Reve (2007), and A farewell to Congo: Back to the equator with Jef Geeraerts (2010).

He translated war prose by Ellen N. La Motte, Mary Borden and Enid Bagnold in Dutch, and produced the first Dutch translation of Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts.