Part of Series
De Bijbel bevat de allermooiste verhalen uit de wereldliteratuur. Guus Kuijer vertelt ze na voor ongelovigen (en gelovigen. In dit deel: 2 Samuël en een deel van Koningen. Het bevat het koningschap van David en diens dood, en de regering van Davids zoon Salomo en zijn duizend vrouwen. Die maken dat Salomo ontrouw wordt aan de God van Israël. Het rijk scheurt, en Israël en Juda krijgen concurrerende koningen. Een bloedige geschiedenis volgt. Het verhaal van David die Batseba in bad bespiedt, haar begeert en daarom haar man Uria de dood injaagt, en dat van Absalom die de verkrachting van zijn dochter Tamar wreekt zijn literaire hoogtepunten. Passie en hartstocht, ontrouw en wraak, liefde en trouw – de verhaalkunst bereikte nooit grotere hoogten.
Author
Guus Kuijer is a Dutch author. He wrote books for children and adults, and is best known for the “Madelief” series of children's books. For his career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" he won the “Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award “from the Swedish Arts Council in 2012, the biggest prize in children's literature. As a children's writer he was one of five finalists for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2008. Other notable awards he received were the “Gouden Griffel” in 1976, 1979, 2000 and 2005 as well as the “Golden Owl” in 2005. From 1967 to 1973 he was a primary school teacher.[ In 1968 he started writing short stories for the magazine Hollands Maandblad and in 1971 he published a collection of his short stories. In 1973 he stopped teaching in order to become a full-time write. Years later, a television series Madelief (1994) and movie Scratches in the Table (1998) were made of his book series about Madelief (1975–1979). Of his book series Polleke (1999–2001) a movie Polleke (2003) and a television series Polleke (2005) were made. In 2011 Australian Richard Tulloch translated The Book of Everything into English and adapted it into a very successful play produced in 2013 by the Melbourne Theatre Company. Recently he wrote four bestselling books that recount in his own style important bible stories from the ancient testament.
