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Anna Maria Geertruida Schmidt, was a dutch poet and writer. Amongst her works are poems, songs, plays, musicals and radio-television drama, but she is most known because of her work in children's literature achieving the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1988. She died in 1994 the morning after her 84th birthday through euthanasia[1].

References

  1. The Dood in Nederland website reads "Uiteindelijk zag ze het niet meer zitten en besloot ze de dag na haar 84ste verjaardag euthanasie te plegen". Translation: "Finally she couldn't stand it anymore and the day after her 84th birthday she decided to euthanatize herself"