Torenhoog En Mijlen Breed by Tonke Dragt

Torenhoog en mijlenbreed, Ogen van tijgers, and related stories, are near-future science fiction stories, where the action happens on Venus and Earth. De brief voor de koning, Geheimen van het Wilde Woud, and a few short stories, are set in a fictional medieval world. Many of the books and stories by Tonke Dragt are situated in a fantasy or science fiction environment, although usually closely related to or intertwined with the real world. The work of Tonke Dragt has been translated into many languages, including German, English, Afrikaans, Czech, Spanish, Danish and Indonesian. Nesbit, Rosemary Sutcliff, and the novel Elidor by Alan Garner. She continued to produce at a high rhythm during the 1960s, but massively reduced the output of new work in the next decades, although collections of older short stories filled up many of the gaps.Īpart from writing and illustrating her own books, Tonke Dragt also made illustrations for some other books, including work by Paul Biegel, E. She became one of the best known Dutch youth authors in 1962 with her second book, De brief voor de koning ( 'The Letter for the King'), which won the Gold Pen award ( Gouden Griffel) for the best Dutch youth book of the year. Tonke Dragt first published stories in the magazine Kris Kras, and her first book appeared in 1961. She studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague and worked afterwards as a drawing teacher in secondary schools, living in The Hague. She came to the Netherlands with her family after the war. She spent the largest part of her youth there, including three years in a Japanese prisoner's camp during the Second World War between 19. Antonia Johanna Willemina Dragt, better known as Tonke Dragt, was born in 1930 in Batavia on the Dutch East Indies (currently Jakarta in Indonesia).

Torenhoog En Mijlen Breed by Tonke Dragt