Anna Woltz
Anna Woltz (born December 29, 1981 in London ) is a Dutch writer.
Life
Anna Woltz is a daughter of the journalist Wout Woltz . She attended the Montessori school in Waalsdorp in The Hague and began to write a column in De Volkskrant during her time at the Haganum grammar school , which was then printed in book form under the title Overleven in 4b . She wrote her first children's book Alles kookt over when she was seventeen.
Woltz studied history at the University of Leiden and also wrote a column Born in '81 in De Volkskrant. She has been a freelance writer since 2002 and mainly writes children's books.
Woltz received a number of Dutch literary prizes.
Anna Woltz lives in Utrecht and has a son.
Works
- Overleven in 4b . Nijgh & Van Ditmar, 1998
- Everything kookt over . Leopold, 2002
- Het secret van ons vuur . Leopold, 2004
- with Wout Woltz : Post uit de oorlog . Leopold, 2006
- Aangespoeld . Leopold, 2007
- Black box . Leopold, 2007
- Red mijn hond! . Leopold, 2008
- Tien were in a stolen car . Leopold, 2008
- Onweer . Leopold, 2009
- De pizza spy . Leopold, 2009
- Meisje number eight . Leopold, 2010
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Evi, Nick en ik . Leopold, 2011
- Chick summer . Translation: Bettina Bach, Eva Schweikart . Illustrations Angela Glökler. Munich: dtv, 2016
- The secret of hero number 6 . Leopold, 2011
- Meisje van Mars . Querido, 2011
- Night in het poppenhuis . Haags Gemeentemuseum, Leopold, 2011
- Ik can nog steeds niet viegen . Leopold, 2012 ( Thea Beckmanprijs , 2012)
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My rare week with Tess . Querido, 2013
- My wonderfully strange week with Tess . Translation by Andrea Kluitmann . Illustrations by Regina Kehn . Hamburg: Carlsen, 2015 ( Lynx of the month July 2015)
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Honderd uur night . Querido, 2014 ( Nienke van Hichtum-prijs , 2015)
- A hundred hours of night . Translation by Andrea Kluitmann. Hamburg: Carlsen, 2017 ( Toad of the Month , 2017)
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Plaster of paris . Querido, 2015 ( Zilveren Griffel and Gouden Griffel , 2016)
- Plaster of Paris or How I Repaired the World in a Single Day . Translation by Andrea Kluitmann. Hamburg: Carlsen, 2016 ( Lynx of the Month Nov. 2016; Catholic Children's and Youth Book Prize , 2017; Silver Feather , 2017)
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Alaska . Querido, 2016 ( Zilveren Griffel , 2017)
- Forever Alaska . Hamburg: Carlsen, 2018
- Sunday, Monday , Starry Day 2020. Translation Andrea Kluitmann. Illustrations by Lena Hesse . Hamburg: Carlsen, 2020
Web links
- Literature by and about Anna Woltz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Anna Woltz in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Short biography and reviews of works by Anna Woltz at perlentaucher.de
- Anna Woltz , website
- Anna Woltz , at dtv
- Anna Woltz at the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin , 2017
- Book reviews about Anna Woltz's books for young people at Jugendbuchtipps.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anna Woltz: What else will you see? Translation Andrea Kluitmann, in: Die Zeit, December 14, 2017, p. 75
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Woltz, Anna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |