A new season of The smartest person is in full swing. For the occasion, KRO-NCRV has opened a can of Dutch celebrities to compete for the profit of the program. But who are all these people? JFK lights them out. With this time: Martin Rombouts.
Remarkably little information can be found about writer, maker and performer Martin Rombouts. His own website lists some projects, including BOYBAND, the literary boyband and older work as Poetic resistance. But for the rest, the disclaimer ‘his website is not quite finished yet’ stands out.
No Wikipedia, but information
So there is no Wikipedia, but some information here and there. We find out that Martin Rombouts was born in 1992 in Rotterdam, which makes him at least thirty years old. In an older message from the NPO radio program Opium we read that he studied at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem.
He graduated with the novella I want to climb the mountain. He was subsequently selected for the Slow Writing Lab of the Dutch Foundation for Literature. He also performed at festivals such as Lowlands and Brainwash.
Podcast by Martin Rombouts
On January 17, he and BOYBAND will release the literary boy band’s debut EP IN CANON. According to Martin Rombouts himself, the record is ‘full of songs and found footage about success, failure and everything in between’. He describes the EP in a roaring Instagram post as: ‘A steaming mix of testosterone and doubt.’ Splinter Chabot and Adriaan van Dis, among others, contributed to the record. If that doesn’t make you curious.
If you also want to listen to it in a different way than in a boy band. Can also. And through So that, a fiction series in podcast form. “About three friends who feel that everyone around them understands adulthood better than they do,” reads the accompanying text in your favorite podcast app.
