Writing · Writer
Active 1989–present · Awards: P.C. Hooft Award, De Inktaap, Libris Literature Prize, Constantijn Huygens Prize, Busken Huet award, Jan Campert Prize for poetry, Herman Gorterprijs, Reina Prinsen Geerligs prize
Willem Jan Otten is a Dutch prose writer, playwright and poet, who in 2014 won the P. C. Hooft Award for lifetime literary achievement.