Francine Oomen makes How I Survive book about main characters in their twenties | NOW

Francine Oomen, known for the popular How do I surviveseries, is going to create a new book in the series. In it, the main characters are not in their teens, but are followed as their twenties.

“This time it’s not about Rosa in her puberty, but about Rosa and her friends between the ages of twentieth and thirtieth,” says 62-year-old Oomen on TikTok.

Of How do I survivebooks became popular at the beginning of this century. Most readers from then are now in their twenties, which is why Oomen finds it interesting to write a new book for this target group.

“That’s quite a complicated period,” says the author. She says that she would like to talk to people in their twenties and to talk about the topics that play a role in their lives and that they encounter. She can use this information in her new book.

Since 1998, more than twenty How do I survivebooks have been published, in which themes such as love, stress and puberty are central. The books are published by Querido and the illustrations are provided by Annet Schaap (also known from light).

In her career, Oomen has written more than a hundred books, of which millions of copies have been sold. This makes her one of the most productive and successful authors in the Netherlands.

Her books have been awarded numerous prizes. Oomen, for example, received the prize from the Dutch Children’s Jury nine times. In 2015 she was appointed officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau.

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