Sjoerd Kuyper

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Dutch writer and screenwriter

Netherlands WritersBorn 1952 · age 74

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Sjoerd Kuyper is a Dutch poet and author known for his work in adult, children, and young adult literature as well as his work in theatre, television series, screenplays and lyrics.

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2016Jenny Smelik-Kiggen Prize

2015Glazen Globe

2014Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau

2012Zilveren Griffel

2012Theo Thijsen Award

2012Staatsprijs voor kinder- en jeugdliteratuur

1999Kiddo Leespluim

1997Gouden Griffel

Connected to Sjoerd 6

Loes HaverkortAlso in My Grandpa the Bankrobber (2011)

Bracha van DoesburghAlso in Morrison krijgt een zusje (2008)

Frank LammersAlso in Hotel de Grote L (2017)

Thekla ReutenAlso in The Red Swan (1999)

Annet MalherbeAlso in The Penknife (1992)

Waldemar TorenstraAlso in My Grandpa the Bankrobber (2011)

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Sjoerd Kuyper is a Dutch poet and author known for his work in adult, children, and young adult literature as well as his work in theatre, television series, screenplays and lyrics. His best-known works are the film The Pocket-knife, the series of books about the toddler Robin, the poem Mensen met koffers, the lyrics Hallo wereld and the youth novels Hotel De Grote L and Bizar (Bizarre). His books have been published in fifteen countries. He has won, among other things, six Zilveren Griffels and a Gouden Griffel for Robin en God. In 2012 he was awarded the Theo Thijssen Prijs award for his entire oeuvre, and in 2014 he was appointed Officier in the Orde van Oranje-Nassau for his merits in Dutch literature at home and abroad.

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