Annie M. G. Schmidt
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Anna Maria Geertruida Schmidt (Kapelle, 20 May 1911[1] – Amsterdam, 21 May 1995[2]) was a Dutch writer.
Although she wrote a variety of poems, songs, books, plays, musicals, and radio- en television drama, she is known best for her children's literature, for which she received the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1988. She died a day after her 84th birthday and was buried in Amsterdam.
- ^ Zijl, Annejet van der (2002). Anna. Amsterdam: Nijgh & Van Ditmar, 22. ISBN 9038887337.
- ^ Zijl, Annejet van der (2002). Anna. Amsterdam: Nijgh & Van Ditmar, 405. ISBN 9038887337.
- Zijl, Annejet van der (2002). Anna. Amsterdam: Nijgh & Van Ditmar. ISBN 90-388-8733-7. (Biography.)
- Official website (Dutch and English versions)