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Jozef Adriaan Anna Geeraerts (23 February 1930 – 11 May 2015), better known as Jef Geeraerts, was a Belgian writer. Geeraerts was born in Antwerp. After his studies in political and administrative sciences at the Koloniale Hogeschool in Antwerp he became a colonial administrator in Belgian Congo. On the independence of the Congo he sent his wife and children back to Belgium and in August 1960 he himself returned to Belgium. During the next six years he was paid by the government (return program). After that time he needed to find a job to survive. He decided to become a writer and went to the University of Brussels to study Germanic languages. ==Career as a writer== When he had finished his studies he wrote his first novel, ''Ik ben maar een neger'' ("I'm just a negro"), which put him on the map as extremely controversial. The book was based on his experience as military in the Congo. He wrote more of these politically motivated colonial books before he started his ''Gangreen'' series. There are four parts, ''Gangreen 1'' (''Black Venus''), ''Gangreen 2'' (''De Goede Moordenaar''), ''Gangreen 3'' (''Het Teken van de Hond'') and ''Gangreen 4'' (''Het Zevende Zegel''). These books were sexually explicit, which led to controversy in Belgium.〔 His books were considered by some to be racist and pornographic. Later Geeraerts became famous for his detective stories. Nowadays he is a celebrated crime-novelist and several of his books (''De zaak Alzheimer'' and ''Dossier K'') have been filmed. In total Geeraerts wrote 35 novels, some plays and a radio drama. Two of his books were used for a film.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jef Geeraerts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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