Kees van Kooten
Author of De verrekijker
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Works by Kees van Kooten
Het groot bescheurboek : een bloemlezing van de tussen 1973 en 1986 verschenen Bescheurkalenders (1987) 57 copies
Woordguls 6 copies
Mankementjes 4 copies
Bescheurkalender 1980 4 copies
Naar Delft heen 4 copies
Bescheurkalender 1981 3 copies
Kaft en koren 3 copies
Bescheurkalender 1984 3 copies
Bescheuragenda 1986 3 copies
Bescheurkalender 1983 3 copies
Thalia, televisie en theater 2 copies
Bescheurkalender 1985 2 copies
Bescheurkalender 1979 2 copies
Bescheurkalender 1978 2 copies
Willem 1 copy
Jan Campert-Stichting Jaarboek 2013 — Contributor — 1 copy
Kees van Kooten — Contributor — 1 copy
in gekroonde stoeten — Contributor — 1 copy
Bescheurkalender 1977 1 copy
Appeldoorn 1 copy
Terug naar Glutonia 1 copy
Associated Works
De Nederlandse poëzie van de negentiende en twintigste eeuw in duizend en enige gedichten (1979) — Contributor, some editions — 193 copies
De kroon op het kwetsen : de affaire H. Brandt Corstius/P.C. Hooftprijs 1984 (1985) — Contributor — 12 copies
Leve de boekhandel! nieuwe verhalen over het theater van de literatuur (2021) — Contributor — 11 copies
De zeven hoofdzonden — Author, some editions — 5 copies
Kortom korte en zeer korte verhalen uit de jaren zeventig en tachtig (1985) — Contributor — 4 copies
Mensje 75 — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Kooten, Kees van
- Legal name
- Kooten, Cornelis Reinier van
- Other names
- Koot
- Birthdate
- 1941-08-10
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- The Netherlands
- Birthplace
- The Hague, South Holland, the Netherlands
- Places of residence
- The Hague, The Netherlands
- Occupations
- comedian
- Relationships
- Bie, Wim de (partner in De Klisjeemannetjes, Het Simplisties Verbond, etc.)
Kooten, Annie van (mother)
Kooten, Kasper van (son) - Awards and honors
- Publieksprijs voor het Nederlandse Boek (1987)
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- Works
- 73
- Also by
- 13
- Members
- 2,598
- Popularity
- #9,886
- Rating
- 3.5
- Reviews
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- ISBNs
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- Languages
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Looking properly at the album for the first time to prepare this book, he discovers an army letter addressed to his father referring to a complaint from a civilian, a Mr Treurniet of Berkel-en-Rodenrijs, about the requisitioning of a pair of binoculars valued at f9.75, now missing from military stores. Could it be that his father acquired the binoculars dishonestly in the heat of (not-quite) war? Van Kooten imagines various fanciful scenarios that might lie behind such an incident — the adolescent Treurniet Jr. spying on a beautiful woman who has just moved into Berkel-en-Rodenrijs, Mrs Treurniet stalking a handsome dentist, and so on, but whatever trace there might have been of this wartime "petite histoire" in official archives has long gone. Maybe someone in Berkel or Rodenrijs remembers the J Treurniet of the binoculars...?
Charming, idiosyncratic, and an interesting little sidelight on the brief period in which the Netherlands was trying to defend its own neutrality, and on the way we look back at that period now.… (more)