Yorick Goldewijk
Yorick Goldewijk (b. 1979) is a newcomer to Dutch children’s literature. He has composed music for advertisements, films and games and made his debut as an author in 2019 with the adventure 'Billy Extra Plankgas', for children of 8 and up.
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A year later, this was followed by a sequel, and he collaborated with his wife, illustrator Yvonne Lacet, to create the picture book Hier zijn draken, which has been published in Spanish, Korean and Italian. He won the Gouden Griffel for the best children’s book of the year 2022 for Films die nergens draaien (Movies Showing Nowhere), a bold and imaginative story that also transcends time and space. A Thousand & I (2023) is his first YA-book to include illustrations by Yvonne Lacet.
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Thousand & I
From the very first page of this book, you can tell that there is something unusual about the protagonist, who, according to the computerised voice that comes through a speaker in the wall above her bed, is called Eight. But what is going on? Who is this girl who lives in the skyscraper city of Surdus, surrounded by ‘the Wall’, with the sea beyond, who travels with her fellow citizens every morning to ‘the Terminal’, where she sits all day at a screen, answering apparently meaningless questions to avoid ‘termination’? Who is this girl, who, from the moment on the train when she looks straight into Thousand’s eyes, is determined to go with her to see the sea?
Movies Showing Nowhere
Her mum has been dead, almost to the exact minute, for as long as twelve-year-old Cato has been alive. Since his wife’s death, her dad has hidden himself away. The rebellious Cato becomes angrier and angrier about having to live in a world where she and her mum cannot both exist.