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Marjolijn Hof

Internationally, Marjolijn Hof (b. 1956) is one of Holland’s most successful contemporary children’s authors. Her children’s books have been translated into Turkish, Slovenian, English, Catalan, Polish, Norwegian, French, German and Icelandic.

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Een kleine kans (trans­lated into English as Against the Odds) has been made into a movie and won international literary and film prizes. Moeder nummer nul (translated into English as Mother Number Zero) and Mijn opa en ik en het varken oma (My Granddad and Me and a Pig Called Granny) have been highly praised.

Prizes

In 2007, she won three major prizes: the Gouden Uil Jeugdliteratuurprijs, the Gouden Uil Prijs van de Jonge Lezer and the Gouden Griffel.

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Marjolijn Hof

The Rules of Three

Twan and his twin sister, Linde, have gone with their mother and grandmother to Iceland to fetch great-grandfather Kas. He’s been living there for years, but he can no longer look after himself. But Grampy Kas knows that he’ll be unhappy in a Dutch care home. A man likes to die the way he lived, he confides to Twan and Linde. He wants to escape, and head off into the mountains, but he’s going to need his great-grandchildren’s help.

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