Piet Oege Bakker (10 August 1897 – 1 April 1960) was a Dutch
journalist
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and writer. He was joint editor for many years of the weekly magazine
Elseviers Weekblad.
His most famous work was the trilogy written between 1941 and 1946 dealing with the experiences of the street urchin Ciske Vrijmoeth, alias
Ciske the Rat. These novels sold in their hundreds of thousands, and later appeared in translation in more than ten other countries. The story has been filmed twice, in 1955 and 1984, and a musical version ran from October 2007 to November 2009.
See also
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Ciske de Rat
''Ciske de Rat'' ("Ciske the Rat") is the first part of a trilogy by Dutch author Piet Bakker. It is part of the Ciske trilogy which was written between 1941 (publication was however delayed by paper shortages until 1942) and 1946. The book was p ...
Bibliography (English ed.)
* Piet Bakker: ''Ciske, the rat''. Transl. by Celina Wieniewska and Peter Janson-Smith. London, 1958.
Other ed.: Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1958
Sources
BWSA website: biography
1897 births
1960 deaths
Journalists from Amsterdam
20th-century Dutch novelists
20th-century Dutch male writers
Dutch male novelists
Dutch children's writers
Writers from Rotterdam
20th-century Dutch journalists
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