Ted van Lieshout
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Born | Theodorus Adrianus (Ted) van Lieshout 21 December 1955 Eindhoven, Netherlands |
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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.[1] Van Lieshout studied Beeldende Kunsten en Vormgeving between 1975 and 1980 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.[2][3] Until 1990 he was part-time teacher at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.[3] After graduating van Lieshout made drawings for the newspaper NRC Handelsblad as well as magazines such as Avenue and Blauw Geruite Kiel, the youth magazine of Vrij Nederland.[1] He also contributed to the television shows Het Klokhuis and Sesamstraat.[1] He became a full-time writer in 1990.[3]
Career
In 1995, he won the Gouden Griffel award for his book Begin een torentje van niks.[3] This was the first time this award was given for a work of poetry.[1]
Van Lieshout won the Zilveren Zoen for his book Gebr. He also won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1999 for the German translation of the book, Bruder, by Mirjam Pressler.[3] The book has been translated into numerous languages.[2]
In 2001, he won the Nienke van Hichtum-prijs for his book Zeer kleine liefde.[3] In 2009, he won the Theo Thijssen-prijs for his entire oeuvre.[3] In 2012, he won the Woutertje Pieterse Prijs for his book Driedeling paard.[4][5] Van Lieshout was also nominated for this award in 2016 and 2018 for respectively the books Rond vierkant vierkant rond (2015) and Onder mijn matras de erwt (2017).[6][7] He also received the Zilveren Griffel award for this book.
Van Lieshout was a finalist for the Hans Christian Andersen Award twice.
Van Lieshout's children's books have been illustrated by various illustrators, including Sieb Posthuma , Annemarie van Haeringen, Daan Remmerts de Vries and Sylvia Weve.[1] Van Lieshout also illustrated many of his books himself.[1] Since 2012 he makes picture books with Philip Hopman: the books about 'Boer Boris ', a little farmer boy.
Awards
- 1987: Vlag en Wimpel, Van verdriet kun je grappige hoedjes vouwen
- 1989: Vlag en Wimpel, De allerliefste jongen van de hele wereld
- 1989: Zilveren Griffel, Och, ik elleboog me er wel doorheen
- 1991: Vlag en Wimpel, Ik ben een held
- 1991: Zilveren Griffel, Mijn botjes zijn bekleed met deftig vel
- 1994: Vlag en Wimpel, Toen oma weg was
- 1995: Gouden Griffel Begin een torentje van niks
- 1997: Zilveren Griffel, Mijn tuin, mijn tuin
- 1997: Zilveren Zoen, Gebr.
- 1999: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, Bruder (German translation of Gebr. by Mirjam Pressler)
- 2001: Nienke van Hichtum-prijs, Zeer kleine liefde
- 2006: Zilveren Griffel, Mama! Waar heb jij het geluk gelaten?
- 2009: Theo Thijssen-prijs, entire oeuvre
- 2009: Zilveren Griffel, Spin op sokken
- 2010: Vlag en Wimpel, Ik wil een naam van chocola
- 2010: Zilveren Griffel, Hou van mij
- 2012: Vlag en Wimpel, Vijf draken verslagen
- 2012: Woutertje Pieterse Prijs, Driedeling paard[4][5]
- 2012: Zilveren Griffel, Driedelig paard
- 2014: Vlag en Wimpel, Boer Boris in de sneeuw
- 2016: Zilveren Griffel, Rond vierkant vierkant rond
- 2019: Boekensleutel, Ze gaan er met je neus vandoor
- 2021: Zilveren Griffel, De gemene moord op Muggemietje
References
- ^ a b c d e f van der Pennen, Wilma. "Ted van Lieshout" (in Dutch). Lexicon van de jeugdliteratuur (1982 - 2014) - Digital Library for Dutch Literature. Archived from the original on 23 April 2019. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
- ^ a b "Ted van Lieshout" (in Dutch). jeugdliteratuur.org. Archived from the original on 23 April 2019. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Ted van Lieshout" (in Dutch). Schrijversinfo.nl. Archived from the original on 17 April 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
- ^ a b "Woutertje Pieterse Prijs 2012" (in Dutch). woutertjepieterseprijs.nl. Archived from the original on 16 January 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- ^ a b "Woutertje Pieterse Prijs 2012 voor Ted van Lieshout" (in Dutch). nrc.nl. 1 March 2012. Archived from the original on 23 February 2019. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
- ^ "Genomineerd voor de Woutertje Pieterse Prijs 2016" (in Dutch). woutertjepieterseprijs.nl. Archived from the original on 22 April 2019. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
- ^ "Nominaties 2018" (in Dutch). woutertjepieterseprijs.nl. Archived from the original on 22 April 2019. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
External links
Media related to Ted van Lieshout at Wikimedia Commons
- Ted van Lieshout, Nederlands Letterenfonds (Dutch Foundation for Literature)
- Ted van Lieshout (in Dutch), Digital Library for Dutch Literature
- Ted van Lieshout (in Dutch), jeugdliteratuur.org