Hans van den Boogaard Margriet Heymans in 2003
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Children’s book author and illustrator Margriet Heymans has passed away. Her publisher Singel Uitgeverijen has announced this. Heymans passed away last night at the age of 90.
Heymans was a multi-award winning writer and illustrator. For her second book Hollidee de Circuspony she received Het Gouden Penseel, a prize for the best illustrated children’s book.
She won that prize again in 1988 and 1998 for the drawings in the books Annetje Lie in the middle of the nightwritten by Imme Dros and her own book The orphans of Woesteland. Heymans was also successful as a writer. In 1989 she received, among other things, a Zilveren Griffel Darling, buttercup.
‘Her drawing and storytelling style is one of a kind’
Margriet Heymans was born in Den Bosch in 1932. After the school for arts and crafts in Den Bosch, she made her first picture book with her sister Annemie, The doll party. It was her debut that finally appeared in 1971.
According to Broadcasting Brabant Heymans had a great love for nature and the Brabant landscape. For example, she drew the Meierij area in her book Deep in the forest of Nergenafor which she received the Nienke van Hichtum Prize in 2007.
The jury of the prize called the book an “ageless literary gem”. “Margriet Heymans has occupied a special place in the children’s book landscape for years,” the jury writes. “Her drawing and storytelling style are incomparable and one of a kind. With her work she skilfully balances on the thin line between reality and imagination, between humor and seriousness, between accessible and hermetic, between tragedy and lightness.”
2023-07-28 18:38:24
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