Kathleen Vereecken
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| Born | (1962-12-14) 14 December 1962 (age 61) Ghent, Belgium |
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Kathleen Vereecken (born 14 December 1962) is a Belgian writer of novels, children's literature and non-fiction.
She has won several awards for her work, including the Boekenleeuw (2010 and 2019) and Woutertje Pieterse Prijs (2019).
Vereecken was born in 1962 as one of four daughters.[1] She worked as a journalist for various women's magazines as well as the newspaper De Standaard.[1]
Vereecken published her first book Het raadsel in het fluisterbos in 1993, a story that she submitted to a children's literature competition.[1][2][3] Both her books Alle kleuren grijs (1997) and Kleine Cecilia (1999) were nominated for the Gouden Uil award.[2][3] Many of her books have a historic theme such as Lara & Rebecca (2006), which takes places on a nineteenth century plantation in Louisiana, and Ik denk dat het liefde was (2009) and Zijdeman (2013) which both take place in 18th century Paris.[1] Vereecken has also written various non-fiction books, such as Het broeikaseffect (2007) about global warming and Obama - De weg naar verandering (2009) about the life of Barack Obama.
In 2010, she won the Boekenleeuw for her book Ik denk dat het liefde was.[4] She also won the Kleine Cervantes, the children's literature award of the city of Ghent, for this book in 2011.[5]
In 2019, she won both the Woutertje Pieterse Prijs and the Boekenleeuw[6] together with illustrator Charlotte Peys for their book Alles komt goed, altijd, a story about a girl during World War I.[7][8]
Vereecken's books have been illustrated by various illustrators, including Anne Westerduin and Piet De Moor.[2]
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