Karlijn Stoffels

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Karlijn Stoffels (born June 24, 1947 in Amsterdam ) is a Dutch author of young books .

Life

Stoffels studied Romance and Dutch Studies at the University of Leiden and worked as a French teacher and translator. Stoffels writes children's and youth literature as well as radio plays and plays.

Inspired by a play by Burkhardt Söll , Stoffels linked facts about the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw and the orphanage of the pedagogue Janusz Korczak with the life stories of two fictional children in her youth book Mosje en Reizele .

Her books focus on topics such as social isolation and outsiders' experiences of persecution, abuse and marginalization. She also works on issues relating to the social integration of migrants. She also deals with fundamental questions of social and emotional insecurity among adolescents during puberty. In 2014 she published the Zuiderzeeballade, a novel for an adult reading audience.

Karlijn Stoffels' youth books have received numerous national and international awards, for example Mojse en Reizele received the Gouden Zoen in 1997 and was nominated for the German Youth Literature Prize in 1999 for the translation by Mirjam Pressler .

Works (selection)

  • Mosje en Reizele . Amsterdam: Querido, 1996
    • Mojsche and Rejsele . From the Dutch by Mirjam Pressler . Weinheim: Beltz and Gelberg 1998
  • Lowlands . Amsterdam: Querido, 1997
    • Lowland: Roman . From the Dutch by Rolf Erdorf . Weinheim: Beltz and Gelberg 2001
  • Khalid . Amsterdam: Querido, 1998
    • Khalid . From the Dutch by Rolf Erdorf . Weinheim: Beltz and Gelberg 2003
  • Rattenvanger . Amsterdam: Querido, 2001
    • Pied Piper: Roman . From the Dutch by Mirjam Pressler . Weinheim: Beltz and Gelberg 2003
  • Morocco aan de plas . Amsterdam: Querido, 2002
    • Morocco by the lake: Roman . From the Dutch by Mirjam Pressler . Weinheim: Beltz and Gelberg 2006
  • Een-nul voor de autisten . Amsterdam: Querido, 2003
  • Koningsdaughter, zeeman ran . Amsterdam: Querido, 2005
  • De ontvoerde prins . Amsterdam: Querido, 2009
  • Zuiderze ballade . Novel. Amsterdam: Querido, 2011

literature

  • Gesa von der Fecht: “1-0 for the idiots” in class . Weinheim: Beltz and Gelberg 2011

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Adienne Karsten: Karlijn Stoffels , in: Bettina runt-Meibauer (ed.): Jewish children's literature: history, traditions, perspectives. Exhibition catalog . Wiesbaden 2005, p. 126 f.
  2. ↑ Karlijn Stoffels , at the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin , 2010


personal data
SURNAME Stoffels, Karlijn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch author for young people
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam