Els Pelgrom

Els Pelgrom (born 2 April 1934, Arnhem), pseudonym of Else Koch, is a Dutch writer of children's literature.

Biography

Career

For some time she worked on the children's section of the Winschoter Courant. She also worked for a short period of time as teacher. The book was translated into English as The Winter When Time Was Frozen by Maryka and Raphael Rudnik who won the Mildred L. Batchelder Award in 1981 for this translation. The book was translated into German by Jutta Knust as Die Kinder vom Achten Wald which was awarded the Gustav-Heinemann-Friedenspreis für Kinder- und Jugendbücher in 1983.

Pelgrom also won the Gouden Griffel for her books Kleine Sofie en Lange Wapper and De eikelvreters.

In 1994, she won the Theo Thijssen-prijs for her entire oeuvre.

Awards Els Pelgrom and Thé Tjong-Khing receiving the Gouden Griffel and Gouden Penseel awards respectively (1985). 1978: Gouden Griffel, De kinderen van het achtste woud 1983: Zilveren Griffel, Voor niets gaat de zon op 1985: Gouden Griffel, Kleine Sofie en Lange Wapper (Little Sophie and Lanky Flop) 1986: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, Die wundersame Reise der kleinen Sofie (Little Sophie and Lanky Flop) 1986: Vlag en Wimpel, De Olifantsberg 1987: Vlag en Wimpel, De straat waar niets gebeurt 1988: Zilveren Griffel, Het onbegonnen feest 1990: Gouden Griffel, De eikelvreters 1994: Theo Thijssen-prijs