Annie M.G.SchmidtMINOES•The name Annie M.G. Schmidt is known all over the world. She is the most famous children's writer in the Netherlands, winner of the H. C. Andersen Gold Medal. The fairy tale “Murli” is named after the heroine, who turned from a cat into a girl, while retaining her cat habits, as well as all her cat friends. The story is being published in Russian for the first time.• Children's writer Annie Maria Gertrude Schmidt (1911-1995) was called during her lifetime “the true queen of Holland.” She herself was very proud of her other title, “the wittiest grandmother in the world,” awarded to her when she was awarded the Gold Medal X . K. Andersen. Any Dutchman from childhood remembers Annie Schmidt's poem about Mr. Fan Zuten, who used to wash his feet in an aquarium. Annie Schmidt's books have been translated into forty languages. Her funny characters - eccentric witches, boys flying in elevators, queens hatching eggs on trees - already speak Russian, but the most popular heroine of the Dutch writer, the cat woman Murli, spoke Russian for the first time in our book. dating! Artists Vladimir Zuikov and Vladimir Lyubarov.