Two years later his first success appeared: Paul Biegel received for his book Het sleutelkruid (The king of the copper mountains), Holland, Haarlem 1964 the CPNB children’s book prize. Since then, a constant flow of books emerged from his pen. He has published some 50 books, several of which are translated into English, French, German, Danish, Swedish, Welsh, South African, Japanese, Turkish and Spanish.
He published short stories in children’s magazine’s and created plays for radio and television series bringing him several prizes and international fame.
Paul Biegel is undoubtedly one of the best children’s authors in Holland. He is one of those rare writers who – through the style, structure and depth of their books – succeed in raising writing for children to the level of literature and he has enjoyed uninterrupted succes with both readers and critics. He is a unique voice in Dutch children’s literature: a “master narrator with a robber’s heart”, as he has been called..