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Annejet van der Zijl is one of the best-known and most widely read literary nonfiction writers in the Netherlands. In addition to other works, she has written biographies of Dutch children’s author Annie M. G. Schmidt; Prince Bernhard, the husband of former Dutch queen Juliana; and Gerard Heineken, the founder of the famous beer empire. Her nonfiction has been awarded the M. J. Brusse Prize for the best work of journalism and has been nominated for the Golden Owl and the AKO Literature Prize. She is the author of An American Princess, which spent more than fifteen weeks at the top of the national bestseller list in the Netherlands and was short-listed for the Libris History Prize. In 2012, she was awarded the Golden Quill for her entire oeuvre. About the Translator Kristen Gehrman is from Charleston, South Carolina, and studied linguistics and literary translation at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. She now lives in The Hague, where in addition to her work as a literary translator, she teaches academic writing and translation. While translating The Boy Between Worlds, she enjoyed biking around The Hague and Scheveningen and visiting the places where Rika and Waldemar had been.

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