Bette Westera (born 20 June 1958) is a Dutch children's writer. She has won numerous awards for her work.

Career

Westera made her debut as children's book author in 1999 with the book ''Wil je met me trouwen?'' Westera went on to win numerous awards for her work, including 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 Boekenweek, Dutch Children's Books Week, by the Collectieve Prop ...

and the Woutertje Pieterse Prijs in 2015 for her poetry collection ''Doodgewoon'' (with illustrations by Sylvia Weve). The previous time a poetry collection won the Gouden Griffel award was twenty years prior in 1995 (

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 ...

's ''Begin een torentje van niks''). She also won several Zilveren Griffel awards as well as several

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

awards over the years. Westera's books have been illustrated by many illustrators, including

Annemarie van Haeringen Annemarie van Haeringen (born 16 February 1959) is a Dutch illustrator. She won the Gouden Penseel award three times: in 1999, 2000 and 2005. She has illustrated books for numerous Dutch authors, including Tonke Dragt, Ted van Lieshout and B ...

, Barbara de Wolf, Harmen van Straaten,

Yvonne Jagtenberg Yvonne is a female given name. It is the feminine form of Yvon, which is derived from the French name Yves and Yvette. It is from the French word ''iv'', meaning "yew" (or tree). Since yew wood was used for bows, Ivo may have been an occupation ...

and Sylvia Weve.

Awards

* 2001:

, ''Een opa om nooit te vergeten'' * 2003:

, ''Alle hens aan dek'' * 2006:

, ''Oma´s rommelkamer'' * 2011: Zilveren Griffel, ''Ik leer je liedjes van verlangen, en aan je apenstaartje hangen'' * 2013:

, ''Aan de kant, ik ben je oma niet!'' (with Sylvia Weve) * 2013:

, ''Dat zou ik nooit doen!'' (with Naomi Tieman and Sylvia Weve) * 2014: Zilveren Griffel, ''Held op sokken'' * 2015: Woutertje Pieterse Prijs, ''Doodgewoon'' (with Sylvia Weve) * 2015:

, ''Doodgewoon'' * 2015:

, ''Kietel nooit een krokodil'' * 2016:

, ''In een slootje ben ik een bootje'' * 2017: Zilveren Griffel, ''Baby'tje in mama's buik'' * 2018: Zilveren Griffel, ''Was de aarde vroeger plat?'' (with Sylvia Weve) * 2018:

, ''Dag poes!'' (with Koos Meinderts,

Sjoerd Kuyper Sjoerd Kuyper (born 6 March 1952, Amsterdam) is a Dutch poetry and prose writer of adult, children's and youth books, theatre, TV series, film scripts and lyrics. His best-known works are the film ''Het zakmes'' (''The Pocket-knife''), the serie ...

Hans Hagen Hans Hagen (born 1953) is a professor of computer science at the University of Kaiserslautern. His main research interests are scientific visualization and geometric modelling. From 1999 to 2003 he was the editor in chief of ''IEEE Transactions o ...

and Monique Hagen) * 2020: Woutertje Pieterse Prijs, ''Uit elkaar'' (with Sylvia Weve) * 2020:

Boekenleeuw The Boekenleeuw is a Flemish literary award for the best book in children's literature by a Flemish author. History The ''Referendumprijs voor Vlaamse kinder- en jeugdboeken'' award was established in 1962. In 1986 this award was replaced b ...

, ''Uit elkaar''

References

External links

Bette Westera
(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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