Woutertje Pieterse Prize – Telegraaf.nl

AMSTERDAM –

Youth Bette Westera writer and illustrator Sylvia Weve this year the Woutertje Pieterse Prize for their book ‘Doodgewoon. The prize for the best Dutch children’s book is a sum of 15,000 euros. The Woutertje Pieterse Prize was awarded Saturday in Amsterdam for the 28th time

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In the voorleesboek Doodgewoon state death centrally. In the book and go Westera Weve “to attack the dead,” said the jury. “They embrace it, keep it at a safe distance, give the value and make it their own, even for readers. All rolled into one big book. “

Westera (1958) published from 1999 various nursery stories, picture books (often in rhyme) and poetry. She also wrote non-fiction, and she is a frequent translator of picture books. Weve (1954) has since its debut already illustrated more than a hundred books in 1980.

For the Woutertje Pieterse Prize was this year for the first time earlier announced nominations. Except Doodgewoon were four other books in the race. The jury was chaired by filmmaker and journalist Hanneke Groenteman

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