{"id":243341,"date":"2009-06-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vo.hollands-spoor.com\/schrijvers\/guus-middag\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T12:49:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:49:56","slug":"guus-middag","status":"publish","type":"oorschot_writer","link":"https:\/\/www.vanoorschot.nl\/en\/writers\/guus-middag\/","title":{"rendered":"Guus Middag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guus Middag (1959) is essayist, columnist, vertaler en voetbaltrainer. In<em> NRC Handelsblad <\/em>schrijft hij vooral over po\u00ebzie. In het tijdschrift <em>Onze Taal<\/em> verzorgt hij rubrieken over de woorden die dichters gebruiken en over Nederlandse liedjes. Hij publiceerde kleine essays over po\u00ebzie, bedoeld voor een jong publiek, in<em> Ik ben een napraatpapegaai <\/em>(1990) en<em> Ik maak nooit iets mee en andere avonturen<\/em> (waarmee hij in 1996 de Gouden Griffel won), en de essaybundels<em> Alles valt in stukken uiteen <\/em>(1993), <em>De eerste keer<\/em> (1999), <em>Vrolijk als een vergelijking<\/em> (2002),<em> Het mooiste gedicht ter wereld<\/em> (2005), <em>Het wezen van de wolk<\/em> (2007), <em>Rarewoordenboek. Van bereshit tot zeeajuin<\/em> (2011) en <em>Verklarend zakwoordenboek van rare woorden<\/em> (2021). Hij bezorgde de uitgave van de <em>Verzamelde gedichten<\/em> (1993) van Chr. J. van Geel en werkt aan een biografie van deze dichter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guus Middag (1959) is essayist, columnist, vertaler en voetbaltrainer. In NRC Handelsblad schrijft hij vooral over po\u00ebzie. 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Hij publiceerde kleine essays over po\u00ebzie, bedoeld voor een jong publiek, in Ik ben een napraatpapegaai (1990) en Ik maak&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vanoorschot.nl\/en\/writers\/guus-middag\/\">Lees verder <span class=\"read-more-arrow\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243342,"menu_order":256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-243341","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>Guus Middag &#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\/guus-middag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Guus Middag &#183; Uitgeverij Van Oorschot\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Guus Middag (1959) is essayist, columnist, vertaler en voetbaltrainer. 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