16/06/2026
‘Jacq, you’re also a father, besides being a writer, right? You have a daughter.’
In a 1996 radio interview, journalist Martin Šimek asks Jacq Vogelaar (1944–2013) this question in his typical, quasi-naive and disarming style. The latter’s understated response immediately reveals something about the sensitive private territory the conversation is moving toward: ‘Yes, whether that makes me a father… Nominally, yes.’
In 1997, Jacq Vogelaar, who was primarily known as an experimental prose writer and as a literary critic, published a poetry collection for the first time in over thirty years: Klaaglied om Ka, which was released as a bibliophile edition with notable illustrations. What prompted this poetic comeback?
Vogelaar biographer Fyke Goorden and UBL Subject Librarian Tommy van Avermaete wrote a Special Collections Blog about Klaaglied om Ka: ➡️ https://edu.nl/bxr9n