Thé Tjong-Khing wins the Woutertje Pieterse Award 2005

Normally, the Woutertje Pieterse Award for the best juvenile book of the past year honours the work of an illustrator in combination with the contribution of a writer. This year, the award goes to an illustrator on his own: Thé Tjong-Khing, for the book Waar is de taart? (Where is the Tart?). According to the jury, it is a book that ‘can be read without text, the words are never missed’.

Thé Tjong-Khing (1933) worked as a comic-strip illustrator at the Toonder Studio’s, where he drew the adventures of the strip character Ollie B. Bommel, among others. He also created the illustrations for books by Guus Kuijer, Els Pelgrom, Miep Diekmann, Dolf Verroen, Nannie Kuiper, and others. His work has earned him three Gouden Penselen and five Vlag en Wimpels Honourable Mentions. The award consists of a sum of € 15,000.
More info: www.mabelis.nl/wpp05tmp/homepage.asp

Published: March 7, 2005 award

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Thé Tjong-Khing wins the Woutertje Pieterse Award 2005

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