What is Simone Kramer?
{{Infobox person | name = Simone Kramer | image = | caption = | birth_name = Cornelia Simone Kramer | birth_date = {{Birth date|1939|7|9|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Bodegraven]], Netherlands | death_date = {{death date and age|2023|1|9|1939|7|9|df=y}} | death_place = [['s-Graveland]], Netherlands | monuments = | residence = | nationality = Dutch | occupation = children's writer, translator | known_for = | relatives = | awards = }} '''Cornelia Simone Kramer-Kramer''' (9 July 1939 – 9 January 2023) was a Dutch [[children's writer]] and translator.<ref name=ref1>{{cite web|url=https://www.tzum.info/2023/01/nieuws-simone-kramer-1939-2023-overleden/ |title=Nieuws: Simone Kramer (1939 – 2023) overleden|work=TZUM|date=14 January 2023|access-date=14 January 2023|language=nl}}</ref><ref name=ref2>{{cite web|url=https://images.nrc.nl/_JuZLrkdNXHnC_DdiCry79llORo=/x/filters:no_upscale():format(jpeg):fill(f8f8f8,true)/s3/nrchub/clippings/NH/20230114/424-advertisement-253228_1306144_kramer01-cea906.png |title=death announcement|work=[[NRC Handelsblad]]|date=|access-date=14 January 2023|language=nl}}</ref><ref name=ref3>{{cite web|url=https://www.dbnl.org/auteurs/auteur.php?id=kram014 |title=Simone Kramer|work=dbnl|date=|access-date=14 January 2023|language=nl}}</ref> ==Biography== Kramer was born in [[Bodegraven]] in 1939, as the youngest in a family of eight children. Her father was a primary school principal in Bodegraven. After primary school, she attended the gymnasium and went afterwards to music school. During her studies, Kramer worked part-time as a doctor's assistant and saleswoman in a department store.<ref name=bio>{{cite web |title=Biografie |url=http://www.simonekramer.nl/p/biografie.html?m=0 |website=simonekramer.nl |accessdate=14 January 2023}}</ref> In 1966 she started working for the [[VARA]]. At first in the music department and later in the film department. She translated many films including ''[[The BFG (1989 movie)|The BFG]]'' of [[Roald Dahl]].<ref name=bio /><ref name=ref1 /> In 1984 Kramer sta