Tine van Berken

Anna Christina Witmond-Berkhout (1870 –1899) was a Dutch children's writer, best known under her pseudonym Tine van Berken. She also wrote adult books under the name Anna Koubert.

Life
Tine van Berken was born on September 29, 1870, in Amsterdam. Between 1894 and 1899 she wrote a large number of books for girls.

In 1899 she founded the journal Lente: Weekblad voor jonge dames [Spring: Young Ladies' Weekly Magazine]. She corresponded with Top Naeff about placing an article in Spring, and read Naeff's novel Schoolidyllen [School Idylls]. However, she died from tuberculosis on December 7, 1899.

The Flemish magic realist writer Johan Daisne wrote a biography of her, Tine van Berken of de intelligentie der ziel [Tine van Berken, or the intelligence of the soul] (1962).

Works

 * As Tine van Berken
 * Een klaverblad van vier [A four-leaf clover], 1894
 * De familie Berewoud [The Berewoud family], 1895
 * Hans en Hanna [Hans and Hanna], 1896
 * Meidorens: drie verhalen, 1896
 * Mijn zusters en ik [My sisters and I], 1896
 * (tr.) Mooie Bruno, 1896. Translated from the English Beautiful Joe by Margaret Marshall Saunders.
 * Wilde wingerd: drie verhalen [Virginia creeper: three stories], 1896
 * De dochters van den generaal [The daughters of the general], 1897
 * Driftkopje: een verhaal, 1897
 * Kleine menschen: drie verhalen [Little people: three stories], 1897
 * Op kostschool en thuis [At boarding school and at home], 1897
 * Rietje's pop [Rietje's doll], 1897
 * Heintje Pochhans, 1898
 * Kibbelaarstertje, 1898
 * Lachebekje: een verhaal, 1898
 * Regen en zonneschijn: drie verhalen [Rain and sunshine: three stories], 1898
 * Kruidje-roer-me-niet, 1899
 * De berewoudjes [The mountain forests], 1900
 * Van een grootmoeder en zeven kleinkinderen [From a grandmother and seven grandchildren], 1900
 * Robbedoes, 1905
 * Rudi Willenborg, 1909
 * Hedwigs St. Nicolaasfeest [Hedwig's Saint Nicholas feast], 1914
 * Ons zonnetje: een verhaal [Our sunshine: a story], 1915


 * As Anna Koubert
 * Nieuwe paneeltjes [New panels], Amsterdam, 1894
 * Een scheepje zonder roer [A boat without a rudder], Amsterdam, 1895
 * Confetti, Amsterdam, 1898
 * Moeder Wassink [Mother Wassink], Amsterdam, 1900