Jacobus Cornelis "Jaap" Harten (Blaricum, 22 September 1930 – The Hague, 2 December 2017) was a Dutch poet and writer of novels and stories.
Partner Oskar Lens
Jacobus Cornelis "Jaap" Harten (Blaricum, 22 September 1930 – The Hague, 2 December 2017) was a Dutch poet and writer of novels and stories.
Harten was encouraged to write by a long-standing friendship with actress Else Mauhs (1885-1959). In 1954 he made his debut with the poetry collection Studio in daylight. In 1964 his first prose was published with the short story collection Operation Montycoat. Harten was fascinated by the city of Berlin, which played an important role in the novel The Tattooed Lorelei (1968). About Mauhs he published in 1984 the biographical novel Else Mauhs, the abduction of a legend.
Jacobus Cornelis Harten was born in 1930 in Blaricum, an exurb of Amsterdam. He studied drama and worked for the Dutch radio for a number of years before moving to The Hague, where he worked at the Dutch Literary Museum and Documentation Centre. He lived together with the painter Oskar Lens, whom he already knew from his youth. From his father, the importer of VolvoTrucks, he inherited a large sum of money. Lens and he founded the Jaap Harten Fund in 1988, a foundation that supports projects in Dutch art and literature. More than a month and a half after Lens' death in October 2017, Harten died in December 2017 at the age of 87. [1] In February 2018, he was found to have bequeathed one million euros to the Literature Museum in The Hague, and also one million to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. [2]
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