Paul van Herck

Paul van Herck was a Flemish Belgian writer of science fiction novels and radio plays.

Van Herck was by profession a Dutch and French language teacher. He debuted with radio plays for the Flemish BRT, but became most well known for making plays for the Dutch broadcast company TROS, of which his series about space reporter and NASA astronaut Matt Meldon was the most famous.

Apart from those radio plays he wrote many science fiction novels of which Sam, of de Pluterdag (translated in English as Where were you last Pluterday?) was the most notable. This novel won the first prize at the 1971 European Science Fiction Convention in the Italian city Trieste for the best Science Fiction novel published in the Dutch language.