It is precisely because he insisted on using his Dutch real name that, as far as I know, when Meindert's works entered the Chinese world, there were three different translations of his name. Kang Xin first translated his Wheels at School in the mid-1980s, where his name was translated as "My Yang Di", followed by Ren Rongrong's translation of "Almost White Rabbit Cat" in Foreign Literature and Art 1993. In that story, his name was changed to "Maiderong", so that at first I liked the wheels on the school building so much, but somehow I missed the article "White Cat as Rabbit" written by Xiao Maoxi. Then in 2002, Hebei Education Publishing House published a set of award-winning books by Andersen and three books by this writer. These three books are the wheels on the schoolhouse, the houses of sixty fathers and Chadelas. This time, his name is meindert dejong. Personally, I prefer Kang Xin's version translated into "Yang Di", so I will use Yang Di as the translator to address the following authors. :)
Maynde de Jong (1906-) is a famous American children's literature writer and the winner of many important children's literature awards such as the International Andersen Award and the Newbery Award. He was born in the Dutch fishing village of Virum (the friendship province on the northern coast of the Netherlands). 19 14 years, when he was eight years old, he moved to the United States with his parents and lived in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He graduated from Calvin University in the state and later went to the University of Chicago, but left without a degree. At that time, the American economy was depressed and he couldn't find a permanent job. He used to be a plasterer, a temporary worker in a cannery and a grave digger. He also taught in a university, but later he went to work on a farm and raised geese and ducks.
He accidentally wrote children's literature. He likes reading and often goes to the library. Once he told the story of geese and ducks in the library. A librarian listened with interest and suggested that he write it down for the children. I began to try to tell stories to children, and wrote my first novel, Goose and Little White Duck, which was very popular after 1938 was published. After writing some books, he joined the Air Force during World War II and was sent to China as an army reporter for three years. It was the special experience of this period that led him to write the book "The Home of Sixty Fathers". After the war, he continued to write children's novels. Throughout the 1950s, he wrote a book every year. Later, he spent the next ten years in Mexico, during which he wrote six more books. After returning to the United States, he stayed in Michigan for a while, and then settled in North Carolina.