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Ted van Lieshout

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Ted van Lieshout
Ted van Lieshout (2010)
Ted van Lieshout (2010)
BornTheodorus Adrianus (Ted) van Lieshout
(1955-12-21) 21 December 1955 (age 68)
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.

Early life

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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

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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

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  1. ^ a b c d e f 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. ^ a b "Ted van Lieshout" (in Dutch). jeugdliteratuur.org. Archived from the original on 23 April 2019. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "Ted van Lieshout" (in Dutch). Schrijversinfo.nl. Archived from the original on 17 April 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  4. ^ a b "Woutertje Pieterse Prijs 2012" (in Dutch). woutertjepieterseprijs.nl. Archived from the original on 16 January 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  5. ^ a b "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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