We Dutch honor our fallen heroes fairly well. A naval hero gets a statue, a football hero sometimes gets a stadium, and yet another gets both. But literary heroes always get a bit of a raw deal. Today, the iconic children's author Annie M.G. Schmidt proves to be beneath the Dutch people. Not a heroine, but an insignificant, ordinary fishwife or something. Je suis Annie? I don't think so! In any case, a writer whose birthplace is allowed to decay…
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We Dutch honor our fallen heroes fairly well. A naval hero gets a statue, a football hero sometimes gets a stadium, and yet another gets both. But literary heroes always get a bit of a raw deal. Today, the iconic children's author Annie M.G. Schmidt proves to be beneath the Dutch people. Not a heroine, but an insignificant, ordinary fishwife or something. Je suis Annie? I don't think so! In any case, a writer whose birthplace is allowed to decay…