Joke van Leeuwen
Joke van Leeuwen | |
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 Joke van Leeuwen in 2008 | |
| Born | Johanna Rutgera van Leeuwen 24 September 1952 |
| Occupation | Author |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Website | www |
Johanna Rutgera 'Joke' van Leeuwen (Template:IPA-nl; born 24 September 1952) is a Dutch author, illustrator, and cabaret performer.[1]
Life and career
Johanna Rutgera van Leeuwen was born on 24 September 1952 in The Hague, Netherlands. She studied at the University of Brussels and has won various awards for her literature for children which sometimes uses a quest as a theme. Her awards includes the Dutch Youth literature award which is only given every three years.[2]
Many of her books have been translated into German by Mirjam Pressler and Hanni Ehlers.
Awards
- For oeuvre
- Theo Thijssen-prijs (2000)
- Gouden Ganzenveer (2010)
- Constantijn Huygens Prize (2012)
- For individual works
- Gouden Penseel (1980) for Een huis met zeven kamers
- Zilveren Griffel (1980) for Een huis met zeven kamers
- Zilveren Griffel (1982) for De metro van Magnus
- Gouden Griffel (1986) for Deesje
- Zilveren Penseel (1986) for Deesje
- Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (1988) for Deesje
- Zilveren Griffel (1989) for We zijn allang begonnen, maar nu begint het echt
- Zilveren Griffel (1993) for Niet wiet, wel nel
- C. Buddingh'-prijs (1995) for Laatste lezers
- Zilveren Griffel (1996) for Ik ben ik
- Golden Owl (1997) for Iep!
- Zilveren Griffel (1997) for Iep!
- Zilveren Griffel (1999) for Kukel
- Zilveren Griffel (2005) for Waarom een buitenboordmotor eenzaam is
- Gouden Penseel (2007) for Heb je mijn zusje gezien?
- Zilveren Griffel (2007) for Heb je mijn zusje gezien?
- Zilveren Penseel (2009) for Een halve hond heel denken
- AKO Literatuurprijs (2013) for Feest van het begin
- Zilveren Griffel (2016) for Mooi boek
- Zilveren Griffel (2018) for Toen ik
Bibliography
- (1978) De Appelmoesstraat is anders (The Apple Sauce Street Is Different)
- (1979) Een huis met zeven kamers (A House With Seven Rooms)
- (1981) De metro van Magnus (The Subway of Magnus)
- (1983) Sus en Jum, 1, 2, 3
- (1985) Deesje
- (1985) Fien wil een flus
- (1996) Iep! (Eep!)
- (2012) Feest van het begin (Feast of the beginning)
- (2015) De onervarenen
References
- ^ Joke van Leeuwen Archived 9 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine, luxmagazine.nl, retrieved 28 June 2014
- ^ Joke van Leeuwen, Dutch Foundation for Literature, retrieved 28 June 2014
External links
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Categories:
- 1952 births
- 20th-century Dutch novelists
- 20th-century Dutch women writers
- 21st-century Dutch novelists
- 21st-century Dutch women writers
- Constantijn Huygens Prize winners
- Dutch children's book illustrators
- Dutch children's writers
- Dutch illustrators
- Living people
- Writers from The Hague
- Dutch women novelists
- Woutertje Pieterse Prize winners
- C. Buddingh' Prize winners