Joukje Akveld

Joukje Akveld (b. 1974) made her debut in 2012 with her first picture book, Olle wist zeker dat hij geen bril nodig had, which has been translated into a number of languages. Her love of animals has played an increasingly important role in Akveld’s work. In Een aap op de wc (2015, Zilveren Griffel), she wrote about the German bombing of Rotterdam’s zoo.