Willem Jan Otten (born 4 October 1951) is a Dutch prose writer, playwright and poet, who in 2014 won the P. C. Hooft Award for lifetime literary achievement.
Dutch prose writer, playwright and poet (born 1951)
Willem Jan Otten (1972)
Biography
Otten was born in Amsterdam as the son of the musicians Marijke Ferguson and Kees Otten. He spent his youth in the Rivierenbuurt in Amsterdam and in Laren.
He grew up in an atmosphere of moral libertinism. His nonfiction is in part a reflection upon that atmosphere and a polemic with the philosophy behind that atmosphere. He published his first book of poetry in 1973. He has published essays and fiction about euthanasia and played a role in the euthanasia debate in the Netherlands by criticizing the arguments in favour of euthanasia and the freedom of choice in matters of one's own life and death.
In 1999 he published an essay Het wonder van de losse olifanten, een rede tot de ontwikkelden onder de verachters van de christelijke religie ("The miracle of the solitary elephants. Lecture addressed to the cultivated among the despisers of the Christian religion") in which he examined the arguments pro and contra Christian belief. This lecture followed upon his conversion to Roman Catholicism.
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