Biografia
Maarten Inghels is a poet, writer and coordinator of the Eenzame Uitvaart in Antwerp, a project in which poets compose verses for people who are buried alone, without family or friends.
His debut collection Tumult appeared in 2008 as the seventeenth part of the Sandwich series, edited by Gerrit Komrij.
His second collection of poems Waakzaam appeared in 2011 and used critical verse to broach the subject of deadlock and question the revolutions, our sloganesque identity crisis and the culture of frivolity.
An anthology from the two collections has been translated into English and German.
His novel De handel in emotionele goederen appeared in 2012, along with a literary non-fiction book Een landloper op batterijen.
Inghels has acted as curator for the international Felix Poetry Festival in Antwerp twice since the 2010 edition.
His work is published by De Bezige Bij Antwerpen.
Maarten Inghels was selected by Passaporta, international house of literature in Bruxelles.
Eventi
07/09/2013
Festivaletteratura
Scritture Giovani
The second tour of Jerusalem with the protagonists of Scritture Giovani 2013. This evening the Belgian poet and novelist Maarten Inghels (De handel in emotionele goederen) and the German Felix Stephan, emerged with his first publication Ach, Lorenz in 2010, will guide us through the city’s streets – real or immagined. With them on stage the Colombian writer Santiago Gamboa, who set his novel Morte di un biografo in Jerusalem, and the journalist Chicca Gagliardo.
27/05/2013
Hay Festival --> Scritture giovani
Meirion Jordan, Felix Stephan, Laura Fidaleo and Maarten Inghels talk to Daniel Hahn
Scritture Giovani 2013
Young writers from Wales, Italy, Germany and Belgium come together to discuss their newly commissioned and translated stories on the theme of “Jerusalem”.
In partnership with Festivaletteratura Mantova and Literaturfestival Berlin.
Scritture giovani
Meirion Jordan, Felix Stephan, Laura Fidaleo and Maarten Inghels talk to Daniel Hahn
Scritture Giovani 2013
Young writers from Wales, Italy, Germany and Belgium come together to discuss their newly commissioned and translated stories on the theme of “Jerusalem”.
In partnership with Festivaletteratura Mantova and Literaturfestival Berlin.