“The allegations about me are absolutely untrue and I have therefore filed a report,” says Lammers, who comes from Groningen, but now lives in Utrecht. “The sheer amount of threats and their aggressiveness towards me and my loved ones made me decide to withdraw.” Lammers was the youngest winner of a Zilveren Griffel ever in 2018, for his picture book ‘The lamb that is a pig’.
Utrecht poet Children’s Book Week withdraws after death threats
