Daan Remmerts de Vries (born 5 April 1962) is a Dutch writer and illustrator.

Career

Remmerts de Vries made his debut in 1990 with ''Zippy en Slos'', a collection of short stories. He won the

Gouden Griffel The Gouden Griffel (Golden Stylus) is an award given to authors of children's or teenagers' literature in the Netherlands. History Since 1971, it is awarded each year during the Dutch Children's Books Week, by the Stichting Collectieve Prop ...

award twice: in 2003, for his book ''Godje'' and, in 2010, for his book ''Voordat jij er was''. He also won the

Zilveren Griffel The Gouden Griffel (Golden Stylus) is an award given to authors of children's or teenagers' literature in the Netherlands. History Since 1971, it is awarded each year during the Dutch Children's Books Week, by the Stichting Collectieve Prop ...

award in 2015 for ''Soms laat ik je even achter'' and in 2017 for ''T.rex Trix in Naturalis''. In 2021, he won the

Theo Thijssen-prijs The Theo Thijssen-prijsSometimes spelled ''Theo Thijssenprijs''. (Dutch for Theo Thijssen Prize) is a Dutch literary award awarded once every three years to a Dutch author of children's literature or young adult fiction. The award is not given f ...

for his entire oeuvre. Remmerts de Vries has illustrated books written by several authors, including

Ted van Lieshout 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 Van Lieshout was born in 1955 in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Van Lieshout studied ''Beeldende Kunst ...

, Sjoerd Kuyper and Francine Oomen. He has also illustrated many of his own books.

Awards

* 1997:

Vlag en Wimpel In the Netherlands, the award is an honourable mention awarded by either the jury of the Gouden Griffel, Gouden Griffel and Zilveren Griffel awards (for Dutch-language children's literature) or the jury of the Gouden Penseel, Gouden Penseel and ...

, ''Mijn tuin, mijn tuin'' (written by

) * 2000:

, ''Willis'' * 2003:

, ''Godje'' * 2005:

, ''De Noordenwindheks'' * 2009:

, ''Bernie King en de magische cirkels'' * 2010:

, ''Voordat jij er was'' * 2015:

, ''Soms laat ik je even achter'' * 2017:

, ''T.rex Trix in Naturalis'' * 2018:

, ''De cycloop'' * 2021:

, entire oeuvre

References

External links

Daan Remmerts de Vries
(in Dutch),

Digital Library for Dutch Literature The Digital Library for Dutch Literature (Dutch: Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren or DBNL) is a website (showing the abbreviation as dbnl) about Dutch language and Dutch literature. It contains thousands of literary texts, second ...

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