{"id":242993,"date":"2009-06-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vo.hollands-spoor.com\/schrijvers\/otto-de-kat\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T16:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:18:06","slug":"otto-de-kat","status":"publish","type":"oorschot_writer","link":"https:\/\/www.vanoorschot.nl\/en\/writers\/otto-de-kat\/","title":{"rendered":"Otto de Kat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Otto de Kat is het pseudoniem van Jan Geurt Gaarlandt (Rotterdam, 1946). Hij studeerde theologie en Nederlands aan de universiteit van Leiden. Na zijn studie werd hij literair criticus van<em> de Volkskrant<\/em> en <em>Vrij Nederland<\/em>. Onder zijn eigen naam debuteerde hij bij Van Oorschot in 1975 met de dichtbundel <em>Het ironisch handvest<\/em>. In 1986 richtte hij Uitgeverij Balans op, waar hij nog steeds aan verbonden is.<\/p>\n<p>Hij schreef eerder de romans <em>Man in de verte<\/em> (1998), <em>De inscheper<\/em> (2004), <em>Julia<\/em> (2008), <em>Bericht uit Berlijn<\/em> (2012), <em>De langste nacht<\/em> (2015), samengevoegd en aangevuld tot vijfluik onder de titel <em>De eeuw van Dudok<\/em> (2016), en<em> Freetown<\/em> (2018). Ze werden meermaals genomineerd voor literaire prijzen. In 2024 verscheen <em>Autobiografie van een flat<\/em> en een jaar daarna het wandelboekje <em>Het kind en ik<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>De romans zijn vertaald in het Duits, Engels, Frans, Italiaans en Zweeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Otto de Kat is het pseudoniem van Jan Geurt Gaarlandt (Rotterdam, 1946). Hij studeerde theologie en Nederlands aan de universiteit van Leiden. Na zijn studie werd hij literair criticus van de Volkskrant en Vrij Nederland. Onder zijn eigen naam debuteerde hij bij Van Oorschot in 1975 met de dichtbundel Het ironisch handvest. 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