Ivan O. Godfroid pursues a dual career as a writer and neuroscientist, where all forms of literature intertwine intimately: prose, aphorism, as well as poetry, theater, and storytelling, not to mention scientific literature. A medical specialist in psychiatry and head of department at a university hospital, his first two works explore lesser-known fields: The Psychiatry of Women (PUF, 1999) and The Placebo Effect (Socrate Editions Promarex, 2002). He then embarked on a project to unify all aspects of writing in the series The Closed Shadow of Celtic Doors, of which two volumes have been published (Tears of Venom and Pact of Contrition). Glam dicinn (Socrate Editions Promarex, 2007) marks a radical turning point, featuring a resolutely subversive text: written in an imaginary language, the author plays with his reader through footnotes. Reflections Without a Mirror (Cactus Inébranlable, 2022) represents a new milestone in his atypical oeuvre. This collection of 5,000 aphorisms, structured like a true chessboard, pushes the short form to its limits. The year 2024 sees the publication of his first novel, The Triumph of Death (Edern éditions), where the author again plays with appearances: this uncompromising thriller can indeed be seen as a philosophical work or an essay on language and the profession of writing. Elevated to the rank of "Sublime Métèque" by the Académie Québécoise de 'Pataphysique, he is currently working on new scientific works to be published by Academia and the University Press of UMons.
