Joke van Leeuwen explained
Joke van Leeuwen |
Birth Name: | Johanna Rutgera van Leeuwen |
Birth Date: | 24 September 1952 |
Birth Place: | The Hague, Netherlands |
Occupation: | Author |
Years Active: | 1992–present |
Johanna Rutgera 'Joke' van Leeuwen (in Dutch; Flemish pronounced as /joːˈɦɑnaː rʏtˈxeːraː ˈjoːkə vɑn ˈleːu.ə(n)/; 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
- For individual works
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 (Sus and Jum, 1, 2, 3)
- (1985) Deesje
- (1985) Fien wil een flus (Fien wants a flus)
- (1988) We zijn allang begonnen, maar nu begint het echt (We have already started, but now it really starts)
- (1992) Niet Wiet, wel Nel (Not Wiet, but Nel)
- (1994) Laatste lezers (Last readers)
- (1995) Ik ben ik (I am me)
- (1996) Iep! (Eep!)
- (1998) Kukel
- (2004) Waarom een buitenboordmotor eenzaam is (Why an outboard motor is lonely)
- (2006) Heb je mijn zusje gezien? (Have you seen my sister)
- (2008) Een halve hond heel denken (Thinking half a dog whole)
- (2012) Feest van het begin (Feast of the beginning)
- (2015) De onervarenen (The unexperienced)
- (2015) Mooi boek (Beautiful book)
- (2017) Toen ik (When I)
Notes and References
- http://www.luxmagazine.nl/vermoedenUitzending.aspx?lIntEntityId=1562 Joke van Leeuwen
- http://www.letterenfonds.nl/en/author/117/joke-van-leeuwen Joke van Leeuwen