name: Annie M.G. Schmidt
birth_date: 1911-05-20 00:00:00
death_date: 1995-05-21 00:00:00
genres: Poetry, Children's Books
avg_rating: 4.09
ratings_count: 28210
about: Anna Maria Geertruida Schmidt 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 committed suicide a day after her 84th birthday and was buried in Amsterdam. Anna Maria Geertruida Schmidt 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 committed suicide a day after her 84th birthday and was buried in Amsterdam. ...more