Ted van Lieshout

Ted van Lieshout studied at Gerrit Rietveld Academie. The recorded working language is Dutch. The field of work recorded is young adult literature. Places of work recorded in the authority are Amsterdam. Works named in the authority record are Zeer kleine liefde. Distinctions recorded are Zilveren Griffel, Charlotte Köhler Stipendium, Gouden Griffel and Zilveren Zoen.

• Name — Ted van Lieshout • Birth Name — Theodorus Adrianus (Ted) van Lieshout • Born — 21 December 1955 • Birthplace — Eindhoven, Netherlands

Van Lieshout was born in 1955 in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Van Lieshout studied Beeldende Kunsten en Vormgeving between 1975 and 1980 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Until 1990 he was part-time teacher at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. After graduating van Lieshout made drawings for the newspaper NRC Handelsblad as well as magazines such as Avenue and Blauw Geruite Kiel, the youth magazine of Vrij Nederland. He also contributed to the television shows Het Klokhuis and Sesamstraat. He became a full-time writer in 1990.

In 1995, he won the Gouden Griffel award for his book Begin een torentje van niks. This was the first time this award was given for a work of poetry. Van Lieshout won the Zilveren Zoen for his book Gebr. He also won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1999 for the German translation of the book, Bruder, by Mirjam Pressler. The book has been translated into numerous languages. In 2001, he won the Nienke van Hichtum-prijs for his book Zeer kleine liefde. In 2009, he won the Theo Thijssen-prijs for his entire oeuvre. In 2012, he won the Woutertje Pieterse Prijs for his book Driedeling paard. Van Lieshout was also nominated for this award in 2016 and 2018 for respectively the books Rond vierkant vierkant rond (2015) and Onder mijn matras de erwt (2017). He also received the Zilveren Griffel award for this book. Van Lieshout was a finalist for the Hans Christian Andersen Award twice. Van Lieshout's children's books have been illustrated by various illustrators, including Sieb Posthuma, Annemarie van Haeringen, Daan Remmerts de Vries and Sylvia Weve. Van Lieshout also illustrated many of his books himself. Since 2012 he makes picture books with Philip Hopman: the books about 'Boer Boris', a little farmer boy. Alongside his work for children, van Lieshout has written novels for adults that address sexual abuse. According to the theatre company Het Nationale Theater, some of these draw on his own childhood experience, at age eleven, of a relationship with an adult man. These works include Mijn meneer (2012) and Schuldig kind (2017); the latter was adapted for the stage by Het Nationale Theater in a production directed by Belle van Heerikhuizen. His 2022 novel Beitelaar follows a fifteen-year-old boy's pursuit of an older man he meets at a cemetery job; reviewing it in De Groene Amsterdammer, a critic wrote that van Lieshout continues to write fearlessly about the ambiguities of sexual abuse.

Ted van Lieshout is recorded with the occupation children's writer. Recorded with the occupation visual artist. Recorded with the occupation screenwriter. Recorded with the occupation illustrator. Recorded with the occupation poet. Recorded as writer, poet, screenwriter, artist and illustrator. Recorded at birth as Theodorus Adrianus van Lieshout. Recognition and collections. Lieshout received Zilveren Griffel, Charlotte Köhler Stipendium, Gouden Griffel, Zilveren Zoen, Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis and Nienke van Hichtum-prijs.