Writer Pim Lammers has been nominated for the Woutertje Pieterse Prize with his collection of poems Ik Denk Dat Ik Kidnapped Ben.
Frits Spits announced this today in the radio program De Taalstaat. The prize for the most beautiful children’s book of the year will be awarded for the 36th time this year. This will happen on April 8, in the same program.
I Think I’ve Been Kidnapped is a collection of poems about the special bond and feelings between family members in traditional or very modern families. The book was recently high in the bestseller list, after Lammers, who grew up in Norg, retired as a poet for the Children’s Book Week.
He did that because he had received death threats. This happened after a Christian lobby group, but also Monique Smit and Kim Feenstra, without any context, shared a number of lines from an old poem by Lammers for adults.
The other books in the running for the prize are Today I Give My Talk About the Anaconda from Bibi Dumon Tak, Moth And The Metal Fishermen from Sanne Rooseboom, I’m here from Joke van Leeuwen and Cartridge by Marco Art.