Annejan Mieras
Annejan Mieras (b. 1965) is an architect by training, but found herself unsuited to the profession, and so chose to go into primary education. She has been teaching for over ten years now. Since her 2018 debut, 'Portiek Zeezicht', she has also been a writer.
Portiek Zeezicht is a cheerful, cinematic book about loss, friendship and ingenuity was enthusiastically received and earned an honourable mention from the jury of the Woutertje Pieterse Prize 2019. Her second book, Homme and the Emergency Case, has confirmed her talent as a writer. Het kleine heelal is her third book. Mieras is highly regarded for her light and confident narrative voice and her realistic young characters.
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The Little Universe
Raaf’s life is falling apart. Not only have she and her mum suddenly had to move to a dingy caravan on the ‘Little Universe’ campsite, she’s also been suspended from school. Raaf is worried. And where is her dad? According to Raaf’s tightlipped mum, he’s having ‘holdups’ at the tow-truck job for which he was recently recruited by a shady character. Raaf doesn’t believe a word of it.
Homme and the Emergency Case
In crystal-clear language and lively dialogues, Annejan Mieras tells how the grumpy Homme (9) gradually abandons his opposition to the ‘sleepover’ of his strange classmate Pien, whose troubled mother is staying at a recovery centre. The surprising theme running through the book is a poem by Poland’s Nobel Prize winner, which Mieras subtly and playfully interweaves with the story.