Bart Moeyaert

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Bart Moeyaert (2017)

Bart Moeyaert (born June 9, 1964 in Bruges ) is a Belgian children's and youth author of the Dutch language .

Life

Moeyaert grew up as the youngest of seven sons of the chambermaid Henriette Smessaert and the primary school teacher Omer Moeyaert. He published his first book at the age of 19. He completed a teacher training course and studied Dutch, history and German in Brussels , wrote his thesis on his favorite author Aidan Chambers before becoming a writer for good. Since 2006 Moeyaert lives in Antwerp and taught since 2003 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in course in creative writing . He also writes scripts and plays .

Today Moeyaert is one of the great European authors of books for children and young people. In 2012 he was nominated for the fourth time for the Hans Christian Andersen Prize. In 2019 he received the prestigious Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize . His works have been translated into German by Mirjam Pressler .

In 2016, Moeyaert led the guest country appearance for Flanders and the Netherlands at the Frankfurt Book Fair .

Works (selection)

  • Duet met valse noten ( Eng . Leander, Liselot and love ), 1983
  • Terug naar Af , 1986
  • Kus me , Querido 1991
    • Kiss me , 1993
  • Africa behind the fence , 1995, Ravensburger Buchverlag, ISBN 978-3-473-34282-2
  • Blote handen (German bare hands ), 1996
  • Suzanne Dantine (1989) and Wespennest (1997) (German: In Wasp's Nest )
  • Rover, dronkeman (1999) (German robber, heart thief )
  • Het is deliede die we niet begrijpen ( Eng . It is love that we do not understand ), 2001, ISBN 978-3-407-80887-5
  • De Schepping ( In the beginning ), Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 2003, ISBN 978-3-87294-938-7
  • Dani Bennoni (lang zal hij leven) , 2004
  • Olek schoot een beer en kwam met een veer op zijn muts weer thuis (German: Olek shot a bear and sewed a hat out of the fur ), Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 2006, ISBN 978-3-7795-0050-6
  • Broere (dt. Brothers. The oldest, the quietest, the most genuine, the most distant, the dearest, the fastest and I ), Carl Hanser Verlag, 2006
  • Courage for three , Carl Hanser Verlag, 2008
  • You are there, you are gone , illustrated by Rotraut Susanne Berner , Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-446-23469-7
  • De baas van alles , German: Who is the boss here? , with illustrations by Katrien Matthys, Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23789-6
  • Graz , novella, translation by Doris Mayer, Luftschacht, Vienna 2013
  • Behind the Milky Way , Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-24305-7
  • Two novels: Kiss Me and It's love that we don't understand , German by Mirjam Pressler , dtv, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-423-62641-5

Awards

Web links

Commons : Bart Moeyaert  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hanser literary publishers: Bart Moeyaert
  2. ↑ It's much, much bigger in FAZ of October 18, 2016, page 11
  3. ↑ Astrid Lindgren Prize for Bart Moeyaert , MDR, published and accessed April 2, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Moeyaert, beard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moeyaert, Bart Boudewijn Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Flemish (children's and young adult) author and poet
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruges