# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/guus-kuijer
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:36:24.763Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/guus-kuijer"
name: "Guus Kuijer"
slug: "guus-kuijer"
description: "Guus Kuijer 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 2008."
tagline: "Dutch author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Guus_Kuijer_2012-03-20_001.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1942-08-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.621672
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0474227/"
    handle:    "nm0474227"
sources:
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    title: "Гюс Кейєр"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "جوس كويجير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Хюс Кайер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guus_Kuijer"
    title: "Guus Kuijer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guus_Kuijer"
    title: "Guus Kuijer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guus_Kuijer"
    title: "Guus Kuijer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guus_Kuijer"
    title: "Guus Kuijer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guus_Kuijer"
    title: "Guus Kuijer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guus_Kuijer"
    title: "Guus Kuijer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guus_Kuijer"
    title: "Guus Kuijer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guus_Kuijer"
    title: "Guus Kuijer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guus_Kuijer"
    title: "Guus Kuijer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guus_Kuijer"
    title: "Guus Kuijer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%91%D0%B9%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%93%D1%8E%D1%81"
    title: "Кёйер, Гюс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guus_Kuijer"
    title: "Guus Kuijer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guus_Kuijer"
    title: "Guus Kuijer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1557410"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4071556"
    title: "Guus Kuijer"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump