Guus Kuijer [SEP] native language
Guus Kuijer
Guus Kuijer (; born 1 August 1942) is a Dutch author. He wrote books for children and adults, and is best known for the "Madelief" series of children's books. For his career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" he won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council in 2012, the biggest prize in children's literature. As a children's writer he was one of five finalists for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in
"Het geheim van Toet-Mu-Is III" by Mansfield Kirby.
Post illustrated many of Guus Kuijer's books, in particular his "Madelief" book series. Kuijer won two Gouden Griffel awards and one Zilveren Griffel award for three books in the series. The series was later adapted to television ("Madelief", 1994) and film ("Scratches in the Table", 1998). In 1982 she won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis together with Guus Kuijer for the book "Erzähl mir von Oma",