Lidia Postma
Lidia Postma (Hoorn, April 2, 1952) is a Dutch writer, artist and illustrator. She is best known for her children's picture books and her Tolkien illustrations.

Career
Postma trained as an illustrator at the Free Graphics and Painting Department of the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. In 1976 she received a Gouden Penseel (Golden Brush) for her illustrations of Hans Christian Andersen's Sprookjes en vertellingen (1975); this was a prize awarded to talented new illustrators. Two years later she was honored with the Gouden Appel (Golden Apple), awarded at the Biennial of Illustration Bratislava by a jury with members from thirteen countries.

Bibliography
 De gestolen spiegel (The Stolen Mirror) (1976)
 De Heksentuin (The Witch's Garden) (1978)

As illustrator
 Sprookjes en vertellingen by Hans Christian Andersen (1975)
 The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Other Tales from Grimm by Naomi Lewis (translator/editor) (1986)
 Nachtverhaal (Night Story) by Paul Biegel (1992)
 The Hobbit Companion by David Day (1997)

References

Sources
 WorldCat entry for Lidia Postma

External links
Tolkien illustration by Lidia Postma

1952 births
Living people
Dutch illustrators
Dutch children's writers
21st-century illustrators of fairy tales
20th-century illustrators