Ted van Lieshout

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Ted van Lieshout
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Ted van Lieshout (2010)
BornTheodorus Adrianus (Ted) van Lieshout
(1955-12-21) 21 December 1955 (age 69)
Eindhoven, Netherlands
Notable awards

Ted van Lieshout (born 21 December 1955) is a Dutch poet and writer of children's literature. He has won numerous awards for his work.

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Early life

Van Lieshout was born in 1955 in Eindhoven, Netherlands. [1] Van Lieshout studied Beeldende Kunsten en Vormgeving between 1975 and 1980 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. [2] [3] Until 1990 he was part-time teacher at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. [3] After graduating van Lieshout made drawings for the newspaper NRC Handelsblad as well as magazines such as Avenue and Blauw Geruite Kiel, the youth magazine of Vrij Nederland . [1] He also contributed to the television shows Het Klokhuis and Sesamstraat . [1] He became a full-time writer in 1990. [3]

Career

In 1995, he won the Gouden Griffel award for his book Begin een torentje van niks. [3] This was the first time this award was given for a work of poetry. [1]

Van Lieshout won the Zilveren Zoen for his book Gebr. He also won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1999 for the German translation of the book, Bruder, by Mirjam Pressler. [3] The book has been translated into numerous languages. [2]

In 2001, he won the Nienke van Hichtum-prijs for his book Zeer kleine liefde. [3] In 2009, he won the Theo Thijssen-prijs for his entire oeuvre. [3] In 2012, he won the Woutertje Pieterse Prijs for his book Driedeling paard. [4] [5] Van Lieshout was also nominated for this award in 2016 and 2018 for respectively the books Rond vierkant vierkant rond (2015) and Onder mijn matras de erwt (2017). [6] [7] He also received the Zilveren Griffel award for this book.

Van Lieshout was a finalist for the Hans Christian Andersen Award twice.

Van Lieshout's children's books have been illustrated by various illustrators, including Sieb Posthuma  [ nl ], Annemarie van Haeringen, Daan Remmerts de Vries and Sylvia Weve. [1] Van Lieshout also illustrated many of his books himself. [1] Since 2012 he makes picture books with Philip Hopman: the books about 'Boer Boris  [ nl ]', a little farmer boy.

Awards

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Ted van Lieshout (2014)

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 van der Pennen, Wilma. "Ted van Lieshout" (in Dutch). Lexicon van de jeugdliteratuur (1982 - 2014) - Digital Library for Dutch Literature. Archived from the original on 23 April 2019. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  2. 1 2 "Ted van Lieshout" (in Dutch). jeugdliteratuur.org. Archived from the original on 23 April 2019. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Ted van Lieshout" (in Dutch). Schrijversinfo.nl. Archived from the original on 17 April 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  4. 1 2 "Woutertje Pieterse Prijs 2012" (in Dutch). woutertjepieterseprijs.nl. Archived from the original on 16 January 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  5. 1 2 "Woutertje Pieterse Prijs 2012 voor Ted van Lieshout" (in Dutch). nrc.nl. 1 March 2012. Archived from the original on 23 February 2019. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
  6. ↑ "Genomineerd voor de Woutertje Pieterse Prijs 2016" (in Dutch). woutertjepieterseprijs.nl. Archived from the original on 22 April 2019. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
  7. ↑ "Nominaties 2018" (in Dutch). woutertjepieterseprijs.nl. Archived from the original on 22 April 2019. Retrieved 22 April 2019.

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