| Jean-Pierre Verheggen | |
| Birth Date: | 1942 6, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Gembloux, German-occupied Belgium |
| Death Place: | Wavre, Belgium |
| Nationality: | Belgian |
| Occupation: | Author Poet |
Jean-Pierre Verheggen (6 June 1942 – 8 November 2023) was a Belgian author and poet.[1]
Born in Gembloux on 6 June 1942, Verheggen began contributing to in the 1970s alongside .[2] He was also a French teacher at the Athénée Royal de Gembloux for the first three years of secondary education. In 1990, he was an advisor to Minister of Culture Bernard Anselme.
Verheggen's works centered around oral poetry and humor, with images of cruelty, voluptuousness, politics, social issues, and linguistics.[3] The Alphabet des lettres françaises de Belgique commented on his poetry, saying "His poetry is above all a parody of poetry, a radical critique of the ideology that this genre conveys and a burlesque pastiche of its conventions. From there, in 1968 he developed the concept of rewriting and applied its effects to broader fields of investigation, ranging from comics to the most stereotypical political language, including the perversion of a language by another, in this case classic and academic French through his maternal Walloon, wild and sexual.".[4]
In 1995, he was awarded the for Ridiculum vitae.
In 2005, he published Portraits crachés, a collection of portraits of fictional and nonfictional Belgian characters, such as Salvatore Adamo and Tintin, in collaboration with Pierre Kroll,,,,,,,, and . In 2009, he was awarded for L'Oral et Hardi, which was directed by Jacques Bonnaffé.[5] On 12 June 2011, he was awarded the Prix for poetry at the festival in Saint-Malo for the collection Poète bin qu'oui, poète bin qu'non ?.
Jean-Pierre Verheggen died in Wavre on 8 November 2023, at the age of 81.[6]