Background

Anton Quintana was born as Anton Adolf Kuyten, on September 6, 1937, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Anton had a twin brother, André Kuyten, an author. The twins grew up at an orphanage in Amsterdam since their father, a sailor, left them, and their mother died of tuberculosis.

Career

Anton Quintana began writing when he was once thrown into prison for vagrancy. He wrote stories for radio and television. His first radio play was Ontmoeting in de herfst which aired in 1962 and was published in 1963 in 6 hoorspelen. In 1970 Quintana also adapted the book Het wassende water (1925) by Herman de Man into a radio play. In 1975 and 1976 he adapted the stories of Martin Beck, written by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, into a radio play called Moordbrigade Stockholm. In 1977 and 1978 Quintana wrote the popular television series De Kris Pusaka.

In 1973, Quintana wrote his first children's book, Padjelanta. As the book had no commercial success, Quintana bought all remaining copies and used them to raise his garden. His next children's book De adelaar was published in 1974. Quintana also wrote comic stories for children's magazine Pep with illustrations by Hans G. Kresse, Jos Looman and Thé Tjong-Khing. In 1982 he published the book De bavianenkoning and later, in 1995, his book, titled Het boek van Bod Pa, came out. In 2001 Anton published his last book, De hemelruiter, a sequel to Het boek van Bod Pa.

Achievements

• Anton Quintana is best known for his novels for young adults, which, however, are considered his most notable achievements. Also, he wrote stories for radio and television, as well as science fiction works and thrillers.
  
  Quintana received various awards for his work. In 1983, he received the Golden Pencil Award for his work The Baboon King. In 1996, he also received the Golden Owl Award and the Woutertje Pieterse Prize for Hel boek van Bod Pa.
  
  Quintana's work has been translated into several languages.

Works

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  • The Baboon King

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    1984
  • De bavianenkoning 1982
  • Natuurlijke vijand 1980
  • Roi des babouins 1999
  • Wandernde Hügel, Singender Sand 1995
  • Die Nachtreiter 1988

Views

Quintana's books, with their theme of a lone individual confronting a hostile world and his own inner demons, are based on his own experience.

Personality

Physical Characteristics: It was thought that Quintana's brain was damaged because one side of his face was disfigured at birth. That was only corrected when he was sixteen years of age.

Connections

Brother:

André Kuyten

(1937 - 1978)

References

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