Anne de Graaf (born 1959) is an American-born Dutch academic, diversity advocate and is the author of over 80 books, with 5 million sold worldwide. She has won the International Historical Fiction

Christy Award The Christy Awards, established in 1999, are awarded each year to recognize fiction of excellence written from a Christian perspective with matters of faith at its core. Awards are given in several genres, including contemporary (stand-alone novel ...

in 2000 for ''Out of the Red Shadow'', the final book of her ''Hidden Harvest'' series, and the East European Christian Children's Book Award in 2007 for ''Dance Upon the Sea''. Anne de Graaf currently teaches Human Rights and Human Security; and Peace Lab at

Amsterdam University College Amsterdam University College (AUC) is a public liberal arts college in the Netherlands with an enrolment of about 900 students from more than 60 countries. All teaching is in English. The college was founded in 2009 as a joint initiative of the ...

and serves as the Chief Diversity Officer at the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...

. Anne de Graaf was born in San Francisco, graduated from

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

, and received her PhD in International Relations from the

University of St. Andrews (Aien aristeuein) , motto_lang = grc , mottoeng = Ever to ExcelorEver to be the Best , established = , type = Public research university Ancient university , endowment ...

. Her doctoral thesis, ''Speaking Peace into Being: Voice, Youth And Agency in a Deeply Divided Society','' focused on the impact of the youth in post-conflict nations. Anne has lived in Ireland and the Netherlands with her husband and their two children. Besides her work as an author, lecturer and Chief Diversity Officer, de Graaf has also worked as a journalist for the Dutch National Press Club, and as an economics translator for the Dutch government. She is a member of the British Society of Authors in London and the Rotary Club Westland-Polanen in The Netherlands.

Awards

* ''Out of the Red Shadow'', Christy Award in 2000 * ''Dance Upon the Sea'', 2nd prize for East European Christian Children's Book Award in 2007 *TEDxAUCollege, ''The Children's Voices'', 2015

References

External links

* * (one under 'De Graaf, Anne')
University of Amsterdam, Bio
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