Harrie GeelenHarrie Geelen.

Harrie Geelen (10 January 1939 to 30 August 2025) was a Dutch illustrator, film director, animator, translator, writer and poet. In 2014, he was made a knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion ("Ridder in de orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw"). Geelen studied Dutch in Amsterdam, where he met his wife Imme Dros, like himself a writer of Dutch children's literature.