Karel ten Haaf 

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BIOGRAPHY

Karel ten Haaf, born in Bloemendaal on 9th January 1962, went to Groningen to study Dutch and has stayed up North ever since. One of his fellow students at the time was Rottend Staal correspondent Ilse Starkenburg.

He is a poet, prose writer, research journalist, radio-host and together with Stefan Nieuwenhuis formed the happy couple 'Die Toffe Gasten' (Those Cool Dudes). He also made the weekly literary radio programme 'Etters met Letters' (Turds with Words) for OOG-Radio. Ten Haaf has performed at, amongst others, the Oerol Festival, Lowlands 1995 and in Mongolia – after which he published the novel Steppen zonder autoped (Scoot Without a Scooter; Passage, 1999).

The cover of his volume Verkeerde benen (Wrong Legs) published in 2003, probably is the most absurd to date:



Together with Ruben van Gogh and Bart FM Droog he edited the anthology Het Hogere Noorden – poëzie uit Groningen (The Higher North – poetry from Groningen; Passage, 1997). His poems have appeared in, e.g. 'Het Groninger Dagblad', 'De Emmer Courant', 'Pennestreken', 'De Rottend Staal Nieuwsbrief', the 'Vera Krant' and in the newspaper 'Dagblad van het Noorden'.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Poetry volumes:
Zonder piemel, Philip Elchers, Groningen, 1992
Zie de man, Groupie-tour, Groningen, 1993
Ik vind het leven niet veel aan, Rottend Staal, Groningen, 1995
Veilig vrijen. Verzamelde gedichten 1988-1995, Rottend Staal, Groningen, 1996
De moderne vrouw en haar kont, Rottend Staal, Groningen, 1998 (recensie)
Het einde, Triona Pers, Groningen, 2000
Verkeerde benen, RSP-Leuterboek, Groningen, 2003

Prose:
Zat gezien, zat meegemaakt (stories), Blauwdruk, Groningen, 1996
Steppen zonder autoped (novel), Passage, Groningen, 1999
Geen zomer meer (novel), Passage, Groningen, juni 2003

Non-fiction:
... en morgen de hele wereld? Het Aktiefront Nationale Socialisten (documentaire), FOK, Amsterdam, 1992
In de geest van Oktober. Het verhaal van Peter Drenth (biography), Passage, Groningen, 1999