Anne De Vries

Place: Kloosterveen Near Assen

Born: 1904

Death: 1964

Biography:

Anne de Vries was a Dutch teacher and writer. He is particularly famous for his novels of regional life. Born on May 22nd, 1904 in Kloosterveen near Assen, Netherlands, he married Alida Gerdina van Wermeskerken in 1930 with whom he had five children. In 1972, de Vries gained national recognition when his novel Bartje was made into a television series by Willy van Hemert. The character of Bartje subsequently came to symbolize the Dutch province of Drenthe. De Vries wrote several regional novels including the coming-of-age novel Bartje and then Bartje Seeks Happiness, as well as Journey through the Night, a children's book about World War II published in four volumes between 1951 and 1958. His Bartje books may be considered Bildungsromane. He died on November 29th, 1964 at age 60 in Zeist.