Imme Dros is a Dutch writer of children's literature

Children's literature

Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve; it is often defined in four different ways: books written by children, books written for children, books chosen by children, or books chosen for children. It is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes...

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Life

Dros grew up on the island of Texel

Texel

Texel is a municipality and an island in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is the biggest and most populated of the Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea, and also the westernmost of this archipelago, which extends to Denmark...

. She studied Dutch in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

. There she met her husband Harrie Geelen

Harrie Geelen

Harrie Geelen is Dutch illustrator, film director, animator, translator, writer and poet.He studied Dutch in Amsterdam, where he met his wife Imme Dros, a writer of Dutch children's literature. Geelen wrote and directed several television programs and translated Disney films into Dutch. He...

, with whom she had three children. As a homemaker, she wrote her first book

Book

A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of hot lava, paper, parchment, or other materials, usually fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within a book is called a leaf or leaflet, and each side of a leaf is called a page...

 in 1971. Her husband has illustrated several of her books. She currently resides in Hilversum

Hilversum

is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Located in the region called "'t Gooi", it is the largest town in that area. It is surrounded by heathland, woods, meadows, lakes, and smaller villages...

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Work

In the 70s Dros wrote books mainly about animals. Young adolescents were her main theme in the 80s. In that time she also shifted towards books for a younger audience. From the 90s on she made the classic works of Homer

Homer

In the Western classical tradition Homer , is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.When he lived is...

 and other Greek mythology

Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. They were a part of religion in ancient Greece...

stories into new forms.
Many of her works have received awards from Dutch literary critics.

Sources

• http://www.dbnl.org/auteurs/auteur.php?id=dros001