What is Baukje Wytsma?
{{Infobox person | name = Baukje Wytsma | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1946|4|1|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Reduzum]], Netherlands | death_date = {{death date and age|2022|12|29|1946|4|1|df=y}} | death_place = | monuments = | residence = | nationality = Dutch | occupation = journalist, writer and poet | known_for = | relatives = | awards = }} '''Baukje Wytsma''' (1 April 1946 – 29 December 2022) was a Dutch journalist, writer and poet.<ref name=ref1>{{cite web|url=https://lc.nl/cultuur/Schrijfster-en-dichteres-Baukje-Wytsma-76-overleden-28139863.html |title=Baukje Wytsma (76), schrijfster 'Bonkefeartliet' en 'Simmer 2000' overleden|work=[[Leeuwarder Courant]]|date=30 December 2022|access-date=30 December 2022|language=nl}}</ref><ref name=ref2>{{cite web|url=https://www.frieseliteratuur.nl/baukje-wytsma/ |title=Baukje Wytsma|work=Friese Literatuur|date=30 December 2022|access-date=30 December 2022|language=nl}}</ref><ref name=ref3>{{cite web|url=https://www.omropfryslan.nl/nl/nieuws/1184244/schrijfster-baukje-wytsma-76-uit-reduzum-overleden |title=Schrijfster Baukje Wytsma (76) uit Reduzum overleden|work=[[Omrop Fryslan]]|date=10 February 2022|access-date=10 February 2022|language=nl}}</ref> ==Biography== Wytsma was born in 1946 in Reduzum. She became a kindergarten teacher, but stopped after a few years. She started studying journalism and became a freelance journalist. For [[Leeuwarder Courant]] she wrote reviews and a children's page. Wytsma made her debut as a writer in 1976 with the children's book ''Romke Timen Tomke'' and ''oare opsizferskes''. In 1980 her first poetry collection was published named ''Noch ien slach om 'e buorren''.<ref name=ref3 /> Some books were induced in the Honour List of the [[International Board on Books for Young People]].<ref name=ref1 /> Birthplace desire and also death were important themes in her works.<ref name=ref3 /> In 2007 Wytsma received the Fryske Anjer and in 2018 she was appointed Knight in the [[Order of Orange-Nassau]] fo