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Sjoukje Maria Diderika Troelstra-Bokma de Boer (13 February 1860 – 9 January 1939), better known under her pseudonym Nienke van Hichtum, was a well-known Frisian
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children's author and translator. From 1888 to 1904, she was married to the socialist leader
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. The couple had two children: a daughter, Dieuwke and a son, Jelle. Her son Jelle Troelstra (1891–1979) was a sculptor and graphic designer. She was born in
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to Albertus Minderts Bokma de Boer and Dieuwke Jans Klaasesz. , the fifth and last daughter of a preacher. Van Hichtum wrote books and stories in both West Frisian (her native language) and
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. The biennial Dutch literary award
Nienke van Hichtum-prijs The Nienke van Hichtum-prijs (Dutch for Nienke van Hichtum Prize) is a biennial Dutch literary award for children's literature awarded by the Jan Campert-Stichting. The award is named after children's author Nienke van Hichtum and was first awar ...
is named after her.


Bibliography

* 1887 – Teltsjes yn skimerjoun * 1897 – Sip-su, "de knappe jongen" (''Sip-su, the handsome boy'') * 1898 – Uit verre landen (''From faraway countries'') * 1898 – De geschiedenis van den kleinen Eskimo Kudlago (''The history of little Eskimo Kudlago'') * 1899 – Hoe een kleine Kafferjongen page bij de koning werd (''How the little kaffir boy became page to the king'') * 1900 – Oehoehoe in de wildernis (''Oehoehoe in the wild'') * 1901 – Een Kafferse heldin (''A kaffir heroine'') * 1903 – Afke's Tiental (''Afke's Ten'') ** 1957 – Reissued as De tsien fan Martens Afke (''The ten of Martens Afke'') * 1905 – Friesche schetsen (''Frisian sketches'') * 1905 – Het apenboek (''The monkeybook'') * 1908 – Der wier ris in âld wyfke * 1908 – Er was eens een oud vrouwtje (''Once upon a time there was an old lady'') * 1911 – Moeders vertellingen (''Mother's tales'') * 1911 – Kajakmannen, Groenlandsche avonturen (naverteld) * 1913 – Oude en nieuwe verhalen (''Old and new stories'') * 1918 – De tooverhoed'' (neiferteld) (''The magic hat'') * 1920 – Gouden sprookjes van gebrs. Grimm'' (naverteld) (''Fairytales of gold by the Grimm brothers'') * 1921 – Vertellingen uit de Duizend en één nacht (bewerking) (''Tales of 1001 nights'') * 1922 – Het groot vertelselboek (''The big book of tales'') * 1923 – Het leven en de wonderbare lotgevallen van Robinson Crusoë (naverteld) * 1924 – Jetse, een Friesche vertelling (Later uitgebreid tot Jelle van Sipke-Froukjes.) * 1924 – De verstandige poedel (''The wise poodle'') * 1929 – Winnie de Poeh, voor Nederlandse kinderen naverteld door Nienke van Hichtum (''Winnie the Pooh, told by Nienke van Hichtum for Dutch children'') * 1930 – De prinses op de erwt (naverteld) (''The princess on the pea'') * 1932 – Jelle van Sipke-Froukjes * 1932 – Oom Remus vertelt sprookjes van de oude plantage aan den kleinen jongen. (bewerking) * 1933 – Russische sprookjes (''Russian fairytales'') * 1936 – Schimmels voor de koets of ... vlooien voor de koekepan? * 1937 – Drie van de oude plaats (''Three of the old place'') **1950 – Reissued as Jonge Jaike fan it Aldhiem (''Young Jaike of the old home'') * 1937 – Oude bekenden (''Old acquaintances'') ** 2003 – Reissued as Alde kunde, in mearkeboek (''Old patron, a fairy tale'') * 1939 – Nienke van Hichtum vertelt weer (''Nienke van Hichtum tells tales again'') * 1939 – De jonge priiskeatser. Friese versie van Jelle van Sipke-Froukjes. (''The young pricecat'') * 1948 – Geplukte bloemetjes, een bundel heel kleine verhaaltjes (''Picked flowers, a collection of very tiny tales'') * – Vier duizend kilometer door de Poolwoestijn (''Four thousand kilometers through the arctic desert'') * – Sprookjes van Hauff (''Hauff's fairytales'') * – Zwarte Jacob van den Valkenburg (''Black Jacob van den Valkensburg'')


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