Toon Tellegen

I Wish

Illustrator: Godon, Ingrid / Übersetzer: Colmer, David

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bestselling Dutch children's author Toon Tellegen matches 33 poems with luminous portraits for thoughtful young readers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Archipelago Books
• Seitenzahl: 105
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 287mm x 222mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 758g
• ISBN-13: 9781939810328
• ISBN-10: 1939810329
• Artikelnr.: 58032988

Autorenporträt

Toon Tellegen is a Dutch writer and poet. He published his first collection of stories for children in 1984 and has published more than twenty collections of poetry to date. In 2001, his book Raptors (Raafvogels), translated into English by Judith Wilkinson, won the British Poetry Society's Popescu Prize for European Poetry in Translation. Tellegen was also awarded the Theo Thijssen Prize and the Constantijn Huygens Prize for his entire ouvre. Ingrid Godon is a Dutch children's book illustrator. Her first illustrated book, Wachten op Matroos, was published in 2000 and accompanied by André Sollie's poetry. It was awarded a Gouden Griffel, Boekenpauw en Boekenwelp. Her illustrations stand out for their poetic, sensitive depictions of people and places. When Ik Wou (I Wish) was launched in 2011, it was nominated for the Deutsche Jugendliteraturpreis award. David Colmer is a writer and translator. He translates Dutch literature in a wide range of genres including literary fiction, nonfiction, children's books, and poetry. He is a four-time winner of the David Reid Poetry Translation Prize and received the 2009 Biennial NSW Premier and PEN Translation Prize. His translation of Gerbrand Bakker's The Twin (Archipelago) was awarded the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and he received - along with Gerbrand Bakker - the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for Bakker's novel The Detour.