Anna Maria Geertruida Schmidt was a Dutch writer. Although she wrote a variety of poems, songs, books, plays, musicals, and radio- en television drama, she is known best for her children’s literature, for which she received the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1988. She committed suicide a day after her 84th birthday and was buried in Amsterdam.
The Cat Who Came In off the Roof by Annie M.G. Schmidt
Annie M.G. Schmidt, who died in 1995, was a beloved and well-respected author in the Netherlands, her native land. In 1988 she won the Hans Christian Anderson Award, the most distinguished international award in children’s literature, which is granted to authors and illustrators whose body of work has made a lasting contribution to children’s literature. Unfortunately, until now Schmidt’s work has not been published in the English language, so she is not well known in the U.S.
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