Georges van Vrekhem is a Flemish speaking Belgian. He became
quite well-known in his country as a poet and playwright. For some time
he was the artistic manager of a professional theater company, Nederlands
Toneel in Gent.
Georges got first acquainted with the works of Sri Aurobindo and the
Mother in 1964. In 1970 he joined the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry
and in 1978 he became a member of Auroville, which he has made his home
since.
He has translated several books of Sri Aurobindo, the Mother and Satprem,
as well as selected writings from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata,
into Dutch.
Beyond Man
After a thirty year study of the source material, Georges worked for
six years on the book 'Beyond Man, the Life and Work of Sri Aurobindo
and The Mother' which has been published in The Netherlands, India (second
printing), USA, Russia and also in French. This book is moreover translated
in German, Italian, and the Spanish translation is almost finished. His subsequent
biography 'The Mother, the Story of Her Life', has been published in
January 2001. See for other works here below.
Books published (in English):
- Beyond
Man – the life and work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (HarperCollins
Publishers India, third impression)
- The
Mother – the story of her life (HarperCollins Publishers India,
second impression)
- Overman
– the intermediary between the human and the supramental being (Rupa
& Co Publishers)
- Patterns
of the Present
From the perspective of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Rupa & Co
Publishers)
- Hitler and his God - Van Vrekhem gives a revealing picture of the rise of the unknown Austrian corporal
In press (summer 2002):
- The Mother’s Vision – a selection from the Mother’s
‘Questions and Answers’ (Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press)
- The Mother: the Divine Shakti – to be published in the Charitavali
Series (Rupa & Co Publishers)
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