This long journey to a strange land is echoed in Dragt’s most well-known book The Letter for the King (De Brief voor de Koning). They eventually settled in The Hague (Den Haag), where she finished school and subsequently studied at the Royal Academy of Art (Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten). Dragt’s parents and their three daughters spent long, tedious weeks at sea as they slowly journeyed towards their Dutch “homeland,” a country where young Dragt had never lived.
Without books to read, she began to write stories of her own instead, using her drawings for inspiration.Īt the conclusion of the war Dutch prisoners were released from the Japanese internment camps and many of them chose to leave the Dutch East Indies and repatriate to the Netherlands. “ Tonke Tijdens Haar Jeugd in Indonesië” image via Īs a child Dragt was a budding artist and avid reader and while in the Japanese camp she collected and hoarded scraps of paper on which she drew fantastical people, places and things.
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