{"id":242429,"date":"2015-07-15T12:45:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T11:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vo.hollands-spoor.com\/schrijvers\/arjen-fortuin\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T11:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T10:24:09","slug":"arjen-fortuin","status":"publish","type":"oorschot_writer","link":"https:\/\/www.vanoorschot.nl\/en\/writers\/arjen-fortuin\/","title":{"rendered":"Arjen Fortuin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arjen Fortuin (Amsterdam, 1971) is criticus, columnist en redacteur van <em>NRC Handelsblad<\/em>. Hij studeerde geschiedenis en filosofie in Amsterdam en Madrid. Sinds 1998 schrijft hij voor de bijlage <em>Boeken <\/em>van <em>NRC Handelsblad<\/em> en van 2005 tot begin 2017 was hij co\u00f6rdinator literatuur van die krant. In een wekelijkse column belichtte hij de literaire actualiteit.\u00a0Hij schrijft voornamelijk over Nederlandse literatuur en verder over geschiedenis en sport.<br \/>\nIn 2015 verscheen de veelgeprezen biografie <em>Geert van Oorschot, uitgever<\/em>. Eerder dat jaar verscheen ook\u00a0<em>Verborgen boeken. Em. Querido&#8217;s uitgeverij tijdens en na de bezetting<\/em>, waarin Fortuin over de rol van Van Oorschot in dienst van Querido schreef. In 2025, het jaar dat Van Oorschot het tachtigjarig bestaan vierde, schreef hij <em>Alsof het gedrukt staat. 80 jaar Van Oorschot in kleine geschiedenissen<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arjen Fortuin (Amsterdam, 1971) is criticus, columnist en redacteur van NRC Handelsblad. Hij studeerde geschiedenis en filosofie in Amsterdam en Madrid. Sinds 1998 schrijft hij voor de bijlage Boeken van NRC Handelsblad en van 2005 tot begin 2017 was hij co\u00f6rdinator literatuur van die krant. In een wekelijkse column belichtte hij de literaire actualiteit.\u00a0Hij schrijft&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vanoorschot.nl\/en\/writers\/arjen-fortuin\/\">Lees verder <span class=\"read-more-arrow\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242430,"menu_order":23,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-242429","oorschot_writer","type-oorschot_writer","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Arjen Fortuin &#183; Uitgeverij Van Oorschot<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vanoorschot.nl\/en\/writers\/arjen-fortuin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Arjen Fortuin &#183; Uitgeverij Van Oorschot\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Arjen Fortuin (Amsterdam, 1971) is criticus, columnist en redacteur van NRC Handelsblad. 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