![]() De Brief Voor de Koning is set in a fictional medieval world, and starts with five young men attending a silent vigil on the night before they are to be knighted. She rose to fame in 1962 with her second book, De Brief Voor de Koning, which has sold over one million copies. Whilst working as an art teacher, Dragt began writing stories and novels. The majority of her works are classified as fantasy or science fiction. She has illustrated works by Paul Biegel, Edith Nesbit, Rosemary Sutcliffe, and Alan Garner. In addition to being a successful author, she also works as an illustrator. ![]() Dragtās formal education took place the Academy of Visual Arts in the Hague. She and her family moved to the Netherlands after World War II. ![]() She spent much of her childhood there, including three years in a Japanese internment camp (1942-45). Antonia Johanna Dragt, better known as Tonke Dragt, was born in 1930 in Batavia (now Jakarta) in Indonesia (then known as the Dutch East Indies). ![]()
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