2011
Klashorst was never only a painter. Besides sculpture, photography, comics and music, he also turned to literature. At the end of 2011 his first novel, Kunstkannibaal (Art Cannibal), was published by Prometheus, after publisher Mai Spijkers had encouraged him to write. The book of almost four hundred pages was launched on 1 December 2011 at the Supperclub in Amsterdam.
Kunstkannibaal is a picaresque novel in the tradition of Ik, Jan Cremer. Like Cremer before him, Klashorst used his own life as the thread of the story: from the Rietveld Academy to Africa, from After Nature to Phnom Penh. The book consists of dozens of short chapters, each with a place and a year, in random order, so that the reader jumps from Bangkok to New York and back to Amsterdam: the portrait of a nomad who is at home everywhere and nowhere.
Joost Zwagerman, Adriaan van Dis and Matthijs van Nieuwkerk wrote recommendations, and the third edition carried a blurb by Jan Cremer himself. Between the adventures, Klashorst also gives the reader his views on the craft of painting.
Earlier he had published Schilderen met acryl (1997) and Castles in the Air (Bangkok, 2010). In 2020 the privately published art book Dirty Diaries followed, with stories in English. The biography King Klashorst was written by Robert Vuijsje.