{"id":1882,"date":"2025-05-08T14:35:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ambassade-hotel-nl.ont.stuurlui.dev\/?post_type=blog&p=1882"},"modified":"2025-05-08T14:35:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:35:32","slug":"maartje-wortel","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/ambassade-hotel-nl.ont.stuurlui.dev\/fr\/blog\/maartje-wortel\/","title":{"rendered":"Maartje Wortel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Maartje Wortel<\/h1>\n

Maartje Wortel (b.1982) was born in Eemnes. <\/strong>She was expelled from the School of Journalism <\/strong>because she \u2018invented too much\u2019. Meanwhile, she has grown into one of the most distinctive writers of her generation. She has written numerous books, including Ice Age and Dennie is a Star. Her latest is The Groove.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pleasure, Prestige, Pennies<\/h3>\n

\nA writer I\u2019m friends with told me that if he was offered a commission, he asked himself whether two of the three Ps could be ticked off. Sorry? I asked. I love language and the individual letters and even DADA, too, but I wanted to understand exactly what he was getting at in such uncertain times.<\/p>\n

Haven\u2019t you heard of that principle? he asked. I shook my head, no. I felt an immediate sense of guilt about everything in the world that I still didn\u2019t know. Not to mention everything that I\u2019d never get to know in the future. I\u2019ve never heard of the three Ps, I said softly.<\/p>\n

The friend tapped one index finger against the other, to lend force to his Ps. Pleasure, Prestige, Pennies. He said that two of these \u2018conditions\u2019 had to be met before he\u2019d say yes to a client. Otherwise, it was no use to you, he said.<\/p>\n

I looked at him wide-eyed. I always say yes. To everything. Clarice Lispector wrote: \u2018Everything in the world started with a yes.\u2019 And that\u2019s the truth of it. Sometimes I forget that things don\u2019t have to start at all. Not everything that\u2019s possible actually needs to exist. Though I\u2019m not sure that this is the moment I\u2019d like to see mentioned in the history books as the one when I realised I could lay claim to a couple of the Ps. This is a privilege that almost no one can allow themselves now. Unless you\u2019re organising the Grand Prix in Zandvoort, then you can ask others to make an appearance for less than one P. As long as you have enough pleasure, prestige and pennies yourself\u2026 Anyway, the Grand Prix has been discussed enough.<\/p>\n

The friend and I were having a mug of coffee on his balcony. I find that with girls, I said. Now, he was the one looking at me, questioningly. I told him that for years I\u2019d had three Cs in my head, if I liked someone: Cheese, Camping and Cats.<\/p>\n

The friend looked at me in disbelief. Really, he said. But, at the moment, I\u2019ve had to let go of that golden triangle, more or less out of necessity. So now, you\u2019re left with hotels, hounds and hunks of meat, he asked? Something like that, I said. I told him that my love and I had been invited to spend the night at the Ambassade Hotel. That we\u2019d been there just an hour when the telephone rang. I didn\u2019t know that telephones could ring in the hotel, I said.<\/p>\n

Who was it? he asked. I said it wasn\u2019t important, only that I was so startled by the telephone ringing in the room that I realised I was someone who said yes to everything purely for pleasure.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s enviable, the friend said. I looked at his cat, which was balancing on the edge of the balcony. Yes, I said.<\/p>\n

View the column on\u00a0the website of \u2018Het Parool\u2019.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

What is a writers\u2019 hotel without writers? A pen without ink? For a period of six months in 2021, one author a week was invited to stay at the Ambassade Hotel and describe their writing lives at that time. Throughout the period May to November 2021, the newspaper Het Parool published the Writers\u2019 Hotel columns in its weekly Arts Section.<\/p>\n

Read more about\u00a0this column project\u00a0in collaboration with \u2018Het Parool\u2019.<\/p>\n

Would you like to stay at the writers\u2019 hotel as well? Enjoy a unique experience in the Ambassade Hotel\u00a0with these special offer packages\u00a0or come and admire the library after visiting our sunny\u00a0terrace on the Herengracht!<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"blog_category":[],"class_list":["post-1882","blog","type-blog","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambassade-hotel-nl.ont.stuurlui.dev\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/1882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambassade-hotel-nl.ont.stuurlui.dev\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambassade-hotel-nl.ont.stuurlui.dev\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambassade-hotel-nl.ont.stuurlui.dev\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"blog_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambassade-hotel-nl.ont.stuurlui.dev\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_category?post=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}