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Annejet van der Zijl is a Dutch writer. Born in 1962, she studied mass communication at the UVA in Amsterdam and did a MA International Journalism at City University in London. She worked in magazine journalism until 2000, meanwhile publishing her first book ''Jagtlust'', about a ramshackle villa that in the sixties was a meeting place for many artists and poets. Annejet van der Zijl lives in Amsterdam with her husband, a journalist. ==Books== ''Jagtlust'' was followed by ''Anna'' (2002), the widely praised biography of the legendary Dutch children’s writer Annie M.G. Schmidt. This book was adapted into a TV mini-series called ''Annie M.G.'', directed by Dana Nechushtan. 2004 saw the appearance of ''Sonny Boy'', a reconstruction of the forbidden love between a Surinamese student and a married Dutch woman against the backdrop of the 1930s and the Second World War. Based on a true story, the book became immensely popular, selling over half a million copies in the Netherlands alone. Also, it was published in six other countries. The film version, which was directed by Dutch filmmaker Maria Peters and premiered in January 2011, will be the opening film of the Stony Brook Film Festival in New York in July 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://stallercenter.com/festival/fest11/sonny.html )〕 Van der Zijl's fourth book, ''Bernhard – a hidden history'', appeared in March 2010. With this detailed reconstruction of the unknown German background of the Dutch Queens’ father, she obtained a doctorate in History at the University of Amsterdam. Like its predecessors, this book was nominated for several historical and literary awards. In March 2011. ''Bernhard'' got the M.J. Brusse Award for the Best Journalism Book 2011. In 2014 she published ''Gerard Heineken'', a biography of Gerard Heineken, founder of the Heineken beer company. In her latest book, Van der Zijl traces the life story of an American woman who made her way into European aristocracy in the 1930s. ''De Amerikaanse prinses'' ('The American Princess') will be published in November 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Annejet van der Zijl」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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