Anna Rutgers van der Loeff, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Anna Rutgers van der Loeff

Dutch writer

Date of Birth: 15-Mar-1910

Place of Birth: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 19-Aug-1990

Profession: writer, children's writer

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Anna Rutgers van der Loeff (1910–1990) was a Dutch writer of children's novels. Some of her works have been translated into other languages, including English. Possibly her most popular novel was the 1963 Children on the Oregon Trail (De Kinderkaravaan), an account of a family of children traveling with a pioneer caravan to Oregon in the mid-19th century, loosely based on the real incident of the Sager orphans. Another popular novel was her 1958 Avalanche, a story of a group of children from an orphanage caught up in heavy snowfall in Switzerland. In 1967 she won the Staatsprijs voor kinder- en jeugdliteratuur literary award. She won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1977 and 1957.