Wilma Geldof

Publisher: Luitingh-Sijthoff 

Wilma Geldof is a full-time writer and writing instructor. In 2014, she published the YA novel Every Day, A Drop of Poison, for which she received the Thea Beckman Prize for best historical YA novel. The Girl with the Braids was shortlisted for the Thea Beckmann Prize 2019 and the De Kleine Cervantes 2020 and nominated for the German Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis and Gustav Heinemann Friedenspreis 2021. The rights have been sold to 8 languages and a film is currently in development.

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