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Two more awards!

09/02/2022 · 18:02

Ludwig Volbeda and I have won two awards. ‘Whole Stories for a Half Soldier’ won silver and gold!

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A new nomination for ‘Whole stories for a Half Soldier’

11/05/2021 · 15:04

Yes, Ludwig and I have our second nomination! This time from the Children’s and Youth Jury Flanders. ‘Whole Stories for a Half Soldier’ is competing for the prize. The KJV is the largest reading jury in Flanders and Brussels for children and young people between the ages of 4 and 16. An adult jury makes a selection from the range of Flemish and Dutch children’s and youth books for different age groups. A youth jury reads the books and chooses a winner. The last edition had no fewer than 11,000 followers! ‘Whole Stories for a Half Soldier’ is one of six books nominated in the 12+ category.

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We won the Woutertje Pieterseprijs!

11/05/2021 · 14:56

On April 10, Ludwig Volbeda and I received the Woutertje Pieterse Prize 2021 for ‘Whole Stories for a Half Soldier’. It happened in the radio program ‘de Taalstaat’ by Frits Spits. Jury chairman Abdelkader Benali presented us with the prize. Afterwards we drank fake wine, outside in the parking lot of the NPO. Of course it was still very hard corona time. Dik Zweekhorst and Wendy Wilbers from Querido publishers also provided a festive cake. And despite the fact that the weather was a bit drizzly, we were still pleasantly warm. Afterwards I drove back to Rotterdam on my own. The backseat was filled with the life-size check, I heard us win on the radio news and thought: Sometimes life takes a wonderful turn.

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(Nederlands) Nominatie Woutertje Pieterse Prijs

28/03/2021 · 15:27

Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

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celebration on a fairytale castle

18/09/2019 · 19:46

Six years ago I was invited by the Internationaler Jugendbibliothek in Munich for the White Ravens Festival. One week I visited schools en libraries. It became a memorable time. Not only because of the inspirationale encounters with young readers, but also because I met many international acclaimed authors like Jenny Valentine and Anne-Laure Bondoux. To top it all I also met Anna Becchi for the first time, who became my sublime Italian translator and ‘literairy bulldozer’. With her I travelled allready twice through Italy for meetings with readers.

The IJB celebrates its 70th (!) birthday on the 20th of september on its residence, the magnificent Schloss Blutenburg. They invited me to do a musical performance for young children. I am looking very much forward to it.

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