{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2022}} {{short description|Belgian children's writer}}{{Infobox writer | birth_date = 1984 | birth_place = Antwerp, Belgium | occupation = Author | genre = Children's and young adult literature | awards = National Jewish Book Awards | education = University of Antwerp (PhD, history) }} '''Aline Sax''' (born 1984, Antwerp, Belgium) is a Belgian author of historical children's and young adult literature. In addition to writing, she works as a historian and translates novels from English and German to Dutch.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=About me |url=https://www.alinesax.be/about-me/ |access-date=2025-11-21 |website=Aline Sax}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=November 2025}} All of her novels are historical novels, capturing a wide range of themes and historical periods.<ref>{{cite web |date= |title=Boeken |url=http://www.alinesax.be/boeken/ |accessdate=2025-11-21 |website=Aline Sax |publisher=}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=November 2025}} Her books are written in Dutch, but have been translated into German,<ref>{{cite web |date= |title=Aline Sax &#124; ARENA Verlag |url=http://www.arena-verlag.de/helden/aline-sax |accessdate=2014-03-01 |publisher=Arena-verlag.de}}</ref>{{Independent source inline|date=November 2025}} Danish,<ref>{{cite web |date=17 December 2010 |title=Mellem to verdener – Turbineforlaget |url=http://www.turbineforlaget.dk/dk/shop/ungdomsboeger/andre-ungdomsboeger/mellem-to-verdener |accessdate=2014-03-01 |publisher=Turbineforlaget.dk}}</ref>{{Independent source inline|date=November 2025}} Swedish, French, Korean, Arabic and English.<ref name="eerdmans">{{cite web |date=16 October 2013 |title=The War within These Walls – Aline Sax, Caryl Strzelecki |url=http://www.eerdmans.com/Products/5428/the-war-within-these-walls.aspx |accessdate=2014-03-01 |publisher=Eerdmans}}</ref>{{Independent source inline|date=November 2025}} She has been nominated for and won several literary prizes.<ref name=":0" />{{Independent source inline|date=November 2025}}

Sax has a master's degree and has received her PhD in History from the University of Antwerp.{{Cn|date=November 2025}}

Sax published her first novel, ''Mist over het strand'', with Clavis in 2001, when she was 17 years old. The novel is about two German child soldiers at the Normandy beaches in June 1944.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clavisbooks.com/book/aline-sax |title=Mist over het strand &#124; Clavis |publisher=Clavisbooks.com |date= |accessdate=2014-03-01}}</ref>{{Independent source inline|date=November 2025}}

''The War Within These Walls'', translated by Laura Watkinson, was published in the United States in October 2013, with illustrations by Caryl Strzelecki.<ref name="eerdmans" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2013 |title=The War within These Walls |url=https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/the-war-within-these-walls |access-date=2025-11-21 |website=Jewish Book Council |language=en}}</ref> Heavily illustrated, the novel dramatically captures the brutal reality of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. The story is about a young Jew's struggle to survive and his participation in the 1943 uprising. ''Kirkus Reviews'' called it an "unrelenting, heart-rending insight into the hell that the Nazis created" that is "gripping, powerful, shattering".<ref name=":1">{{cite web |last=Johnston |first=Julie |date=2013-09-01 |title=THE WAR WITHIN THESE WALLS by Aline Sax, Caryl Strzelecki, Laura Watkinson |url=http://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/aline-sax/the-war-within-these-walls/ |accessdate=2014-03-01 |website=Kirkus Reviews |publisher=}}</ref> ''Kirkus Reviews'' and ''Publishers Weekly'' included it among their lists of the best books of 2013.<ref name=":1" />{{Failed verification|date=November 2025}}<ref>{{cite web |date= |title=Best Books of 2013 |url=http://best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-books/2013/childrens-fiction#book/book-23 |accessdate=2014-03-01 |work=Publishers Weekly |publisher=}}</ref> It won the National Jewish Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/awards/national-jewish-book-awards/past-winners|title=Past Winners|website=Jewish Book Council|language=en|access-date=2020-01-18}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=November 2025}} the silver medal of the Sydney Taylor Book Award,<ref>{{cite web |date= |title=Sydney Taylor Book Award |url=https://jewishlibraries.org/sydney_taylor_book_award/ |accessdate=2014-03-01 |website=Association of Jewish Libraries |publisher=}}</ref> and the Batchelder Honor Award of the American Library Association.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Roback |first=Diane |date=2014-01-27 |title=DiCamillo, Floca, Sedgwick Win Newbery, Caldecott, Printz |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/60805-dicamillo-floca-sedgwick-win-newbery-caldecott-printz.html |access-date=2025-11-21 |website=Publishers Weekly |language=en}}</ref>

In 2025, she won de Boon for Children's and youth literature for ''Wat ons nog rest''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=de Boon 2025 {{!}} de Boon |url=https://www.deboon.be/edities/de-boon-2025 |access-date=2026-05-13 |website=www.deboon.be |language=nl}}</ref>

==Publications==

=== Standalone books ===

* {{Cite book |last=Sax |first=Aline |title=Mist over het strand |date=2001 |publisher=Clavis |trans-title=}} * {{Cite book |last=Sax |first=Aline |title=Duivelsvlucht |date=2002 |publisher=Clavis |trans-title=}} * {{Cite book |last=Sax |first=Aline |title=De gebroken harp |date=2004 |publisher=Clavis |trans-title=}} * {{Cite book |last=Sax |first=Aline |title=Geen stap terug |date=2005 |publisher=Clavis |trans-title=}} * {{Cite book |last=Sax |first=Aline |title=De Hond van Roosevelt |date=2007 |publisher=Altiora Averbode |trans-title=}} * {{Cite book |last=Sax |first=Aline |title=De laatste reis |date=2010 |publisher=Clavis |trans-title=}} * {{Cite book |last=Sax |first=Aline |title=De kleuren van het getto |date=2013 |publisher=Eerdmans |others=Illustrated by Caryl Strzelecki |translator-last=Watkinson |translator-first=Laura |trans-title=The War Within These Walls |orig-year=2011 |translator-link=Laura Watkinson}} * {{Cite book |last=Sax |first=Aline |title=Voor Vlaanderen, Volk En Führer |date=2012 |publisher=Manteau |trans-title=}} * {{Cite book |last=Sax |first=Aline |title=Het meisje en de soldaat |date=2013 |publisher=De Eenhoorn |others=Illustrated by Ann De Bode |trans-title=}} * {{Cite book |last1=Sax |first1=Aline |title=Bezette kust. Leven in de schaduw van de Atlantikwall |last2=Vandebroek |first2=Hannelore |last3=Raats |first3=Jonas |last4=Mahieu |first4=Maarten |date=2014 |publisher=Hannibal |trans-title=}} * {{Cite book |last=Sax |first=Aline |title=Grensgangers |date=2015 |publisher=Davidsfonds |trans-title=Dutch}} * {{Cite book |last=Sax |first=Aline |title=De lantaarnaansteker |date=2018 |publisher=Eenhoorn |others=Illustrated by Ann De Bode}} * {{Cite book |last=Sax |first=Aline |title=De jongen op het dak |date=2020 |publisher=De Eenhoorn |others=Illustrated by Sassafras De Bruyn}} * {{Cite book |last=Sax |first=Aline |title=Uit het niets |date=2021 |publisher=Davidsfonds}} * {{Cite book |last=Sax |first=Aline |title=Wat ons nog rest |date=2023 |publisher=Infodok}} * {{Cite book |last=Sax |first=Aline |title=Negentien Negentien |date=2025 |publisher=Ambo{{!}}Anthos}}

=== Adrian books ===

* {{Cite book |last=Sax |first=Aline |title=Wij, twee jongens |date=2006 |publisher=Clavis}} * {{Cite book |last=Sax |first=Aline |title=Schaduwleven |date=2007 |publisher=Clavis}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== {{Portal|Children's literature}} * {{LCAuth|n2013012131|Aline Sax|2|ue}}

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sax, Aline}} Category:1984 births Category:Belgian children's writers Category:Belgian women children's writers Category:20th-century Belgian women writers Category:Flemish women writers Category:Writers from Antwerp Category:Living people Category:Date of birth missing (living people)