Erich Kästner
Erich Kästner (1899–1974) was a German author, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known for his humorous, socially astute poetry and children's literature.
A stout pacifist and democrat, he was expelled from the national writers' guild during the Nazi era, with many of his books being burned in public. Today, he is widely regarded as one of Germany's most prolific and beloved children's book authors.
AKA:
Έριχ Καίστνερ (Greek)
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Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende was a German writer of fantasy and children's literature. He was the son of the surrealist painter Edgar Ende.
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Ende was one of the most popular and famous German authors of the 20th century, mostly due to the enormous success of his children's books. However, Ende was not strictly a children’s author, as he also wrote books for adults. Ende claimed, "It is for this child in me, and in all of us, that I tell my stories," and that "[my books are] for any child between 80 and 8 years" (qtd. Senick 95, 97). Ende’s writing could be described as a surreal mixture of reality and fantasy. The reader is often invited to take a more interactive role in the story, and the worlds in his books often mirror our reality, using -
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Yehoshua Kenaz
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Oskar Maria Graf
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August Šenoa
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He was a transitional figure, who helped bring Croatian literature from Romanticism to Realism and introduced the historical novel to Croatia. He wrote more than ten novels, among which the most notable are:
Zlatarovo zlato (Goldsmith's gold; 1871)
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Ran Bosilek
Latin transliteration of Bulgarian writer and translator Ран Босилек
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Псевдоним на българския писател и преводач Генчо Негенцов. Баща му Станчо е занаятчия и опълченец от Освободителната война – починал, когато Генчо е седем годишен. Ран Босилек има двама братя и две сестри. Всички получават висше образование. Единият му брат е д-р Христо Негенцов (1881-1953), професор по педагогика. Другият му брат е Никола Негенцов (1888-1943) - физик, метеоролог, създател на метеорологията във военно-въздушните сили (ВВС).
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Astrid Lindgren
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Heinrich Hoffmann
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Mato Lovrak
Mato Lovrak was a Croatian children's literature writer.
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Mato Lovrak je bio hrvatski dječji pisac.
Mato Lovrak rođen je u Velikom Grđevcu, selu kod Bjelovara, u šesteročlanoj obitelji krojačkog obrtnika Mate i majke Ane. Četverogodišnju pučku školu završio je u rodnom selu, a nakon četiri razreda niže realne gimnazije u Bjelovaru upisao se u Učiteljsku školu u Zagrebu koju je završio 1919. godine. Nakon završetka škole je službovao kao učitelj u Kutini, Klokočevcu, Velikom Grđevcu i Velikim Zdencima, a od 1934. godine do mirovine 1954. godine u Zagrebu.
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He won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1972 for Krabat.
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John Gardner
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Gardner was born in Batavia, New York. His father was a lay preacher and dairy farmer, and his mother taught English at a local school. Both parents were fond of Shakespeare and often recited literature together. As a child, Gardner attended public school and worked on his father's farm, where, in April of 1945, his younger brother Gilbert was killed in an accident with a cultipacker. Gardner, who was driving the tractor during the fatal accident, carried guilt for his brother's death throughout his life, suffering nightmares and flashbacks. The incident informed much of Gardn -
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Μαρία Ιορδανίδου
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Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.
Εξαιτίας των συνθηκών της ζωής της, η Ιορδανίδου απέκτησε μεγάλη γλωσσομάθεια και εργάστηκε ως ιδιωτική υπάλληλος. Έγινε γνωστή στο λογοτεχνικό χώρο με το έργο Λωξάντρα, που έγραψε σε ηλικία 65 χρονών, το 1962, και γνώρισε πολλές επανεκδόσεις. Η Λωξάντρα περιγράφει με μεγάλη ζωντάνια και χιούμορ τα έθιμα και τη ζωή των Ελλήνων της Πόλης και βασίζεται -
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Martin Suter
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Wolf Haas
Wolf Haas is the author of nine books in the bestselling Detective Brenner mystery series, three volumes of which have been made into popular German-language films. Among other prizes, the Brenner books have been awarded the German thriller prize and the 2004 Literature Prize from the City of Vienna.
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Christian Kracht
Christian Kracht is a Swiss writer and journalist.
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Otfried Preußler
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He has sold roughly 50 million copies worldwide.
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Paul Maar
Paul Maar is one of the most important modern German writers for children and young people. He is a novelist, playwright, translator and illustrator.
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Gianni Rodari
Italian journalist and writer, particularly famous for his children books, which have been translated in many different languages but are not well known in the English speaking world. In 1970 he was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for children's literature.
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Jean de la Fontaine
French writer Jean de la Fontaine collected the stories of Aesop and other persons in his Fables (1668-1694).
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French literary figures, including Molière and Jean de la Fontaine, gathered at Auteuil, a favorite place.
People most widely read the famous poet Jean de la Fontaine of the 17th century.
According to Gustave Flaubert, only this poet understood and mastered the texture of the language before Victor Marie Hugo. A set of postage stamps, issued in 1995, celebrates la Fontaine. Jean de La Fontaine, le défi , a film, released in April 2007, starred Lorànt Deutsch of his life.
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Heinrich Mann
A German novelist who wrote works with social themes whose attacks on the authoritarian and increasingly militaristic nature of post-Weimar German society led to his exile in 1933.
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Born in Lübeck as the oldest child of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann and Júlia da Silva Bruhns. He was the elder brother of Thomas Mann. His father came from a patrician grain merchant family and was a Senator of the Hanseatic city. After the death of his father, his mother moved the family to Munich, where Heinrich began his career as a freier Schriftsteller or free novelist. -
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921 – 1990) was a Swiss author and dramatist.
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Dürrenmatt was born in the Emmental (canton of Bern), the son of a Protestant pastor. His grandfather Ulrich Dürrenmatt was a conservative politician. The family moved to Bern in 1935. Dürrenmatt began to study philosophy and German language and literature at the University of Zurich in 1941, but moved to the University of Bern after one semester. In 1943 he decided to become an author and dramatist and dropped his academic career. In 1945-46, he wrote his first play, "It is written". On October 11 1946 he married actress Lotti Geissler. She died in 1983 and Dürrenmatt was married again to another actress, Charlotte Kerr, the following year.
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Patrick Süskind
From 1968-1974 he studied medieval and modern history in Munich and Aix-en-Provence. In the '80s he worked as a screenwriter, for Kir Royal and Monaco Franze among others.
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After spending the 1970s writing what he has characterized as “short unpublished prose pieces and longer un-produced screenplays”, Patrick Süskind was catapulted to fame in the 1980s by the monodrama Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass, 1981), which became an instant success and a favourite of the German stage. In 1985 his status as literary wunderkind was confirmed with the publication of the novel Das Parfüm. Die Geschichte eines Mörders (Perfume: The Story of a Murderer), which quickly topped the European best-seller list and eventually sold millions of copies worldwide. -
Michael Ende
Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende was a German writer of fantasy and children's literature. He was the son of the surrealist painter Edgar Ende.
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Ende was one of the most popular and famous German authors of the 20th century, mostly due to the enormous success of his children's books. However, Ende was not strictly a children’s author, as he also wrote books for adults. Ende claimed, "It is for this child in me, and in all of us, that I tell my stories," and that "[my books are] for any child between 80 and 8 years" (qtd. Senick 95, 97). Ende’s writing could be described as a surreal mixture of reality and fantasy. The reader is often invited to take a more interactive role in the story, and the worlds in his books often mirror our reality, using -
Max Frisch
Max Rudolph Frisch was born in 1911 in Zurich; the son of Franz Bruno Frisch (an architect) and Karolina Bettina Frisch (née Wildermuth). After studying at the Realgymnasium in Zurich, he enrolled at the University of Zurich in 1930 and began studying German literature, but had to abandon due to financial problems after the death of his father in 1932. Instead, he started working as a journalist and columnist for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), one of the major newspapers in Switzerland. With the NZZ he would entertain a lifelong ambivalent love-hate relationship, for his own views were in stark contrast to the conservative views promulgated by this newspaper. In 1933 he travelled through eastern and south-eastern Europe, and in 1935 he vis
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Florian Illies
Florian Illies ist ein deutscher Journalist, Kunsthändler, Kunsthistoriker und Buchautor. Ab Januar 2019 war er geschäftsführender Verleger des Rowohlt Verlags.
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Author Florian Illies has worked as culture editor for major German newspapers and magazines, and is a co-founder of "Monopol" a magazine for art, literature and lifestyle. -
Franz Kafka
Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as " The Metamorphosis " (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Trial (1925), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world.
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Jewish middle-class family of this major fiction writer of the 20th century spoke German. People consider his unique body of much incomplete writing, mainly published posthumously, among the most influential in European literature.
His stories include "The Metamorphosis" (1912) and " In the Penal Colony " (1914), whereas his posthumous novels include The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927).
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Korney Chukovsky
Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky (Russian: Корней Иванович Чуковский) was one of the most popular children's poets in the Russian language. His catchy rhythms, inventive rhymes and absurd characters have invited comparisons with the American children's author Dr. Seuss. Chukovsky's poems Tarakanishche ("The Monster Cockroach"), Krokodil ("The Crocodile"), Telefon ("The Telephone") and Moydodyr ("Wash-'em-Clean") have been favorites with many generations of Russophone children. Lines from his poems, in particular Telefon, have become universal catch-phrases in the Russian media and everyday conversation. He adapted the Doctor Dolittle stories into a book-length Russian poem as Doktor Aybolit ("Dr. Ow-It-Hurts"), and translated a substantial portio
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Camilla Pang
Camilla Pang is a British computational biologist, writer, and autism activist.
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Branko Ćopić
Branko Ćopić (Cyrillic: Бранко Ћопић; January 1, 1915 – March 26, 1984) was a Yugoslav writer. He was born in the village of Hašani near Bosanska Krupa. He attended schools in Bihać, Banja Luka, Sarajevo and Karlovac before moving to Belgrade to study philosophy at the University of Belgrade until his graduation in 1940.
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Upon the uprising in the Bosanska Krajina in 1941, he joined the Partizans and remained in their ranks until the end of World War II. That period of his life influenced much of his literary work as can be seen by the themes he later writes about. Athe the end of the war he returned to Belgrade where he was, until 1949, the director of a children's magazine called "Pioniri". From 1951 until his death he was a professional wri -
Isabel Abedi
Isabel Abedi machte ein Filmpraktikum in Los Angeles und war in ihrem ersten Berufsleben Werbetexterin, bevor sie begann, Bücher von Kindern und Jugendlichen zu schreiben. Mittlerweile ist sie eine der bekanntesten Kinder- und Jugendbuchautorinnen Deutschlands. Ihre Romane wurden in viele Sprachen übersetzt und vielfach ausgezeichnet, „Whisper“ u.a. von der Jugendjury des Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreises. Ihre erfolgreiche Kinderbuchreihe Lola rankt sich um die Lebenswelt eines Mädchens, das Tochter einer deutschen Mutter und eines afrobrasilianischen Vaters ist. Seit einigen Jahren arbeitet Isabel Abedi auch als Übersetzerin und setzt sich mit Herzblut für interkulturelle Schreibprojekte und Vielfalt in der Kinder- und Jugendbuchbranche ei
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Álex Rovira Celma
Álex Rovira Celma (Barcelona, 1 de marzo de 1969) es un empresario, escritor, economista, conferenciante internacional y consultor español. Ha vendido más de nueve millones de copias de sus diferentes títulos, siendo algunos de ellos número 1 de ventas en literatura de no ficción en España y también en otros idiomas.
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Es licenciado en Ciencias Empresariales y MBA por ESADE, donde dirige seminarios sobre Innovación, Gestión del Cambio, Gestión del Talento, Gestión de Personas y Pensamiento Creativo para alta dirección de empresas y/o ONG. Además de en esta escuela de negocios, colabora también en otras instituciones de gran prestigio académico.
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Milivoj Matošec
Milivoj Matošec (Zagreb, 1929.- Zagreb, 1982.) je novinar, urednik i pisac.
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Završio je studij prava, bio je dramaturg Radio-televizije Zagreb. Napisao je brojne priče, romane, radio-igre (60 ih je emitirano), scenarije za televizijske emisije, serije i crtane filmove. Njegova djela prevedena su na ruski, mađarski, slovenski i albanski. Bio je urednik listova i časopisa Vjesnik, Kerempuh, Omladinski borac, Horizont i dr. -
Anto Gardaš
Anto Gardaš was born in Agići near Derventa on 21st May, 1938. He graduated from the Law School in Zagreb. He has written about forty books, mostly for younger readers: novels, fairy-tales, stories, poems, role plays. He published five haiku collections. He received several awards for his novels and poetry in Croatia. His haiku was awarded and commended on many haiku contests both in Croatia and abroad. He died in Osijek, 10.06.2004.
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Sanja Polak
Sanja Polak rodila se 5. 11. 1968. godine u zagrebačkom rodilištu u Vinogradskoj ulici. Voli svoj Zagreb i gotovo sve njegove ulice. Pohađala je dječji vrtić u Prilazu Đure Deželića, dvije osnovne škole u Bolničkoj ulici i gimnazije u Križanićevoj i Habdelićevoj ulici. Diplomirala je u Savskoj ulici i postala učiteljica razredne nastave.
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Od 1991. godine učiteljica je u Osnovnoj školi Davorina Trstenjaka u Krčkoj i Savskoj ulici. Stanovala je u Ulici Braće Cvijića i Peruanskoj ulici s mamom Ljerkom, tatom Brankom i sestrom Ivanom. Danas stanuje u Ulici Vincenta iz Kastva sa suprugom Zoranom, kćerima Petrom i Paulinom i psićem Flokijem. Od 1996. godine uređuje časopis za učenike od 1. do 4. razreda Prvi izbor i kao urednica ima radnu sobu u ne -
Hrvoje Hitrec
Hrvoje Hitrec is contemporary Croatian writer. Graduated comparative literature. He wrote theatre plays, movie and television scenarios, but he is especially known for his children books.
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Vjenceslav Novak
Vjenceslav Novak (Senj, 11. rujna 1859. - Zagreb, 20. rujna 1905.), hrvatski romanopisac, novelist, publicist, glazbeni kritičar i pedagog
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Rođen je u doseljeničkoj češkoj obitelji, gdje je majka Senjanka iz doseljene bavarske obitelji. Bio je najugledniji pisac hrvatskog realizma, te su ga zvali hrvatskim Balzacom. Osnovnu i srednju školu je završio u Senju i Gospiću. Poslije završene preparandije u Zagrebu radi neko vrijeme kao učitelj u Senju.
U književnost ulazi 1881. godine pripovijetkom Maca. Napisao je sedam romana. Objavio je tridesetak pripovjedaka, a osim pripovjedne proze piše pjesme, feljtone, dramske pokušaje, recenzije, kritike i rasprave iz muzikologije i muzičke pedagogije.
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James Krüss
James Krüss was a German writer of children's and picture books, illustrator, poet, dramatist, scriptwriter, translator, and collector of children's poems and folk songs. In 1968 he received the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing, recognizing his "lasting contribution to children's literature".
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Friedrich Schiller
People best know long didactic poems and historical plays, such as Don Carlos (1787) and William Tell (1804), of leading romanticist German poet, dramatist, and historian Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.
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This philosopher and dramatist struck up a productive if complicated friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe during the last eighteen years of his life and encouraged Goethe to finish works that he left merely as sketches; they greatly discussed issues concerning aesthetics and thus gave way to a period, now referred to as classicism of Weimar. They also worked together on Die Xenien ( The Xenies ), a collection of short but harsh satires that verbally attacked perceived enemies of the -
Janosch
Janosch is the pen name of Horst Eckert, one of Germany's most popular authors and illustrators of children's books. His works have won several awards.
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Max Frisch
Max Rudolph Frisch was born in 1911 in Zurich; the son of Franz Bruno Frisch (an architect) and Karolina Bettina Frisch (née Wildermuth). After studying at the Realgymnasium in Zurich, he enrolled at the University of Zurich in 1930 and began studying German literature, but had to abandon due to financial problems after the death of his father in 1932. Instead, he started working as a journalist and columnist for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), one of the major newspapers in Switzerland. With the NZZ he would entertain a lifelong ambivalent love-hate relationship, for his own views were in stark contrast to the conservative views promulgated by this newspaper. In 1933 he travelled through eastern and south-eastern Europe, and in 1935 he vis
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Vladimir Nazor
Vladimir Nazor was one of the greatest and most famous Croatian poets. He was a writer, translator, and a humanist. Although he had not been an active politician until 1941, he had a significant political influence through ethical aspects of his work.
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Mato Lovrak
Mato Lovrak was a Croatian children's literature writer.
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Mato Lovrak je bio hrvatski dječji pisac.
Mato Lovrak rođen je u Velikom Grđevcu, selu kod Bjelovara, u šesteročlanoj obitelji krojačkog obrtnika Mate i majke Ane. Četverogodišnju pučku školu završio je u rodnom selu, a nakon četiri razreda niže realne gimnazije u Bjelovaru upisao se u Učiteljsku školu u Zagrebu koju je završio 1919. godine. Nakon završetka škole je službovao kao učitelj u Kutini, Klokočevcu, Velikom Grđevcu i Velikim Zdencima, a od 1934. godine do mirovine 1954. godine u Zagrebu.
Pisao je i pripovijetke, ali je osobitu popularnost stekao romanima tematski vezanim uz djetinjstvo. Gradi zanimljivu fabulu s elementima pustolovnog, ali i s didaktičkim naglascima. Izuz -
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Cornelia Funke
Cornelia Funke is a multiple award-winning German illustrator and storyteller, who writes fantasy for all ages of readers. Amongst her best known books is the Inkheart trilogy. Many of Cornelia's titles are published all over the world and translated into more than 30 languages. She has two children, two birds and a very old dog and lives in Los Angeles, California.
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Astrid Lindgren
Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren, née Ericsson, (1907 - 2002) was a Swedish children's book author and screenwriter, whose many titles were translated into 85 languages and published in more than 100 countries. She has sold roughly 165 million copies worldwide. Today, she is most remembered for writing the Pippi Longstocking books, as well as the Karlsson-on-the-Roof book series.
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Heimito von Doderer
Heimito von Doderer lebte fast ausschließlich in Wien. 1916 geriet er in russische Gefangenschaft und kehrte erst 1920 zurück. Er studierte Geschichtswissenschaft. Seit der Veröffentlichung seiner Hauptwerke "Die Strudlhofstiege" (1951) und "Die Dämonen" (1956) gilt er als einer der bedeutendsten österreichischen Schriftsteller.
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Louis Pergaud
Louis Pergaud was a French writer and soldier, whose principal works were known as "Animal Stories" due to his featuring animals of the Franche-Comté in lead roles. His most notable work was the novel La Guerre des boutons (1912) (English: The War of the Buttons). It has been reprinted more than 30 times, and is included on the French high school curriculum.
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A schoolteacher by profession, Pergaud came into conflict with Roman Catholic authorities over the implementation of the Third French Republic's separation of Church and State enacted in 1905. In 1907 Pergaud chose to move to Paris to pursue his literary career. Pergaud's prose works are often considered to reflect the influences of Realist, Decadent and Symbolist movements. He was kille -
Sibylle Berg
Sibylle Berg was born at and spent her childhood in Weimar where she also worked as a puppeteer until moving to the West in 1984. She studied briefly at the Dimitri theatre school in Ticino and then had various jobs. She began to write, published her first articles and reportage, and was a columnist for the "Zeit-Magazin". Her first book appeared in 1997, and other novels and stories followed. "Helges Leben" was her first play. Sibylle Berg lives in Zurich.
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Klaus Mann
Born in Munich, Klaus Mann was the son of German writer Thomas Mann and his wife, Katia Pringsheim. His father was baptized as a Lutheran, while his mother was from a family of secular Jews.
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Mann's most famous novel, Mephisto, was written in 1936 and first published in Amsterdam. The novel is a thinly-disguised portrait of his former brother-in-law, the actor Gustaf Gründgens. The literary scandal surrounding it made Mann posthumously famous in West Germany, as Gründgens' adopted son brought a legal case to have the novel banned after its first publication in West Germany in the early 1960s. After seven years of legal hearings, the West German Supreme Court upheld the ban, although it continued to be available in East Germany and abroad. Th -
Gudrun Pausewang
Gudrun Pausewang (1928 - 2020) was a German writer of children's and teen fiction, also noted in science fiction for young-adult novels like The Last Children of Schewenborn.
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Pausewang was born in Eastern Bohemia of German ancestry and after World War II her family settled in the former West Germany. She later became a teacher and taught in Germany's foreign school services in South America. She has written 86 novels with many of them involving the Third World and environmental concerns.
She has won several awards, including the German Federal Cross of Merit, the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis and the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for The Cloud in 1988.
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Barry Hughart
Hughart was educated at Phillips Academy (Andover). He attended Columbia University where he obtained a bachelor's degree in 1956.
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Upon his graduation from Columbia, Hughart joined the United States Air Force and served from 1956 to 1960 where he was involved in laying mines in the Korean Demilitarized Zone. During Hughart's military service he began to develop his lifelong interest in China that led him to plan a series set in "an Ancient China that never was." His connection to China continued after his military service, as he worked with TechTop, a military surplus company that was based in Asia, from 1960 to 1965.
From 1965 to 1970 Hughart was the manager of the Lenox Hill Book Shop in New York City.
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Kálmán Mikszáth
Kálmán Mikszáth Kiscsoltó was a major Hungarian novelist, journalist, and politician.
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Mikszáth was born in Sklabiná into a family of the lesser nobility. He studied Law at the University of Budapest from 1866 to 1869, although he did not apply for any exam, and became involved in journalism, writing for many Hungarian newspapers including the Pesti Hírlap.
His early short stories were based on the lives of peasants and artisans, and had little appeal. However, they demonstrated his skill in crafting humorous anecdotes, which would be developed in his later, more popular works. Many of his novels contained social commentary and satire, and towards the end of his life they became increasingly critical of the aristocracy and the burden he believ -
Jurek Becker
Jurek Becker (* vermutlich 30. September 1937 in Łódź, Polen als Jerzy Bekker geboren[1]; † 14. März 1997 in Sieseby, Schleswig-Holstein) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller, Drehbuchautor und DDR-Dissident.
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Jurek Becker (probably September 30, 1937 – March 14, 1997) was a Polish-born German writer, film-author and GDR dissident. His most famous novel is Jacob the Liar, which has been made into two films. He lived in Łódź during World War II for about two years and survived the Holocaust. -
Mascha Kaléko
Mascha Kaléko war eine deutschsprachige, der Neuen Sachlichkeit zugerechnete Dichterin.
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Charakteristisch für Mascha Kalékos Arbeit ist die Großstadtlyrik mit ironisch-zärtlichem, melancholischem Ton. Als einzige bekannte weibliche Dichterin der Neuen Sachlichkeit wurde sie häufig mit ihren männlichen Kollegen verglichen, so bezeichnete man sie als „weiblichen Ringelnatz“ oder nannte sie einen „weiblichen Kästner“. Die auch Montagsgedichte genannten Strophen rühren durch ihre schnörkellose und direkte Sprache an. Ihre Gedichte wurden – als Chansons vertont – von Diseusen wie Hanne Wieder gesungen oder werden von Sängern wie Rainer Bielfeldt noch heute vorgetragen. -
Alison Uttley
Alison Uttley (17 December 1884 – 7 May 1976), née Alice Jane Taylor, was a prolific British writer of over 100 books. She is now best known for her children's series about Little Grey Rabbit, and Sam Pig.
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Rebecca Donner
I was born in Canada and during childhood lived in a number of different places — Japan, Michigan, Virginia, and California. My love of books has remained the one constant in my life.
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All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days is my third book, a fusion of biography, WWII espionage thriller, and scholarly detective story. I interweave letters, diary entries, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison, survivors’ testimony, and a trove of declassified intelligence documents into an epic story about an American woman who was a leader in Berlin's underground resistance to Hitler. -
Volker Klüpfel
Volker Klüpfel (* 1971 in Kempten (Allgäu)) ist ein deutscher Krimiautor.
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Volker Klüpfel wuchs in Altusried im Allgäu auf. Er studierte Politikwissenschaft, Geschichte, Kommunikationswissenschaft und Journalistik. Nach dem Studium arbeitete er als Journalist bei einer amerikanischen Zeitung und beim Bayerischen Rundfunk, bevor er ein Zeitungsvolontariat begann. Klüpfel war bis August 2008 Kulturredakteur der Memminger Zeitung, im September 2008 wechselte er zur überregionalen Kulturredaktion der Augsburger Allgemeinen und wohnt seitdem in Augsburg. Seit 2012 ist er hauptberuflich Autor. -
Aida Edemariam
Aida Edemariam, whose father is Ethiopian and mother Canadian, grew up in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She studied English literature at Oxford and the University of Toronto, and has worked as a journalist in New York (at Harper’s Magazine), Toronto and London, where she is a senior feature writer and editor for the Guardian, writing on everything from politics to literature (essays on the academic novel, interviews with Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, Edward Albee, Jorie Graham, Hilary Mantel etc) to reporting on the aircraft and North Sea oil industries. Her work has been chosen for Best American Essays, and nominated for a National Magazine Award and an Amnesty Media award. An early section of her first book was awarded a Royal Society of Literatu
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Yordan Yovkov
Йордан Стефанов Йовков участва в Балканската и Междусъюзническата война като командир на рота.
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През Първата световна война е граничен офицер край река Места, а след това става военен кореспондент от Южния до Северния фронт.
Йовков дебютира като поет. През 1902–11 г. публикува стихове (общо 31) в различни периодични издания — в. „Съзнание“, списанията „Пробуда“, „Художник“, „Ново време“, „Ново общество“и "Бисери".
Първата си белетристична творба - „Овчарова жалба“, с подзаглавие „Старопланинска легенда“ — Йовков публикува в списание „Просвета“ през 1910 г.
Годините, прекарани по фронтовете на трите войни, предопределят тематиката и персонажите в по-нататъчното му творчество. Военните си творби Йовков започва да печата от началото на 1913 г. ( -
Franz Hohler
Hohler wuchs in Olten auf und besuchte die Kantonsschule Aarau bis zur Matura 1963. Dann begann er das Studium der Germanistik und Romanistik an der Universität Zürich. Während des Studiums führte er sein erstes Soloprogramm pizzicato auf (1965). Dessen Erfolg ermutigte ihn, das Studium abzubrechen und sich ganz der Kunst zu widmen. Sein Werk umfasst unter anderem Kabarettprogramme, Theaterstücke, Film- und Fernseh-Produktionen, Kinderbücher, Kurzgeschichten und Romane.
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Er arbeitete immer wieder mit anderen Künstlern zusammen, beispielsweise auf der Bühne und am Fernsehen mit dem Pantomimen René Quellet, mit Hanns Dieter Hüsch oder als Autor und Produzent für Emil Steinberger.
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Sten Nadolny
Sten Nadolny, (born 29 July 1942, in Zehdenick, Province of Brandenburg) is a German novelist. His parents, Burkhard and Isabella Nadolny, were also writers.
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His best known work is "The Discovery of Slowness" (1987; originally published in 1983 as "Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit"), a fictionalized meditation on the life and lessons of British Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin. A pre-publication portion of the novel titled "Kopenhagen 1801" (which would become the fifth chapter) had earned Nadolny the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 1980. -
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Cécile Aubry
Cécile Aubry was a French film actress, author, television screenwriter and director. Born Anne-José Madeleine Henriette Bénard, Aubry began her career as a dancer. At age 20, she was signed to 20th Century Fox.
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She made her break as the star of Henri-Georges Clouzot's Manon (1949), which won the Golden Lion at the famed Venice Film Festival. That brought her a leading role alongside Tyrone Power and Orson Welles in American director Henry Hathaway's feature The Black Rose (1950). She had a strong performance in Christian-Jacque's Bluebeard (1952), one of the first French-produced films to be made in color. For a short time, she was a Hollywood success, signing a lucrative contract with Fox, employing her parents as a publicity team, and reg -
Urs Widmer
Urs Widmer was born in Basel in 1938. He studied German, Romance languages and History in Basel, Montpellier and Paris. In 1966 he completed his doctoral thesis on German postwar prose, and then worked as an editor for Walter Publishing House in Olten, Switzerland, and for Suhrkamp Publishing House in Frankfurt. In Frankfurt he stayed for 17 years, though with Suhrkamp only until 1968. Together with other editors he founded the ›Verlag der Autoren‹. Until his death Urs Widmer lived and worked as a writer in Zurich.
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Andrea Petrlik Huseinović
Andrea Petrlik Huseinović rođena je 1966. u Zagrebu gdje je i završila Školu primijenjenih umjetnosti i potom Akademiju likovnih umjetnosti.
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Osim ilustriranjem knjiga bavi se i njihovim pisanjem.
Za ilustriranje do sada je dobila četiri priznanja uključujući i domaću prestižnu nagradu "Grigor Vitez" za slikovnicu Plavo nebo. Imala je i nekoliko samostalnih izložbi.
I dalje živi i radi u Zagrebu gdje sa suprugom, od 1998., vodi tvrtku Kašmir promet koja se bavi izdavanjem knjiga za mlade. -
Sarah Edmonds
Sarah Edmonds is an illustrator and designer whose work has been commissioned by Roald Dahl 100, Snowdonia National Park, and National Museum Wales, among others. She lives in Sussex, England.
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Harald Welzer
Harald Welzer ist Direktor des Center for Interdisciplinary Memory Research am Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut in Essen und Forschungsprofessor für Sozialpsychologie an der Universität Witten/Herdecke.
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Slavko Kolar
Slavko Kolar (pravo ime: Aloysius Vjekoslav Kolar) je bio hrvatski književnik i scenarist. Za života je napisao i objavio više od stotinu djela, a najpoznatija su “Breza” i “Svoga tela gospodar”. Inspiraciju je pronalazio u društvenim zbivanjima oko njega, a njegovo stvaranje je bilo prožeto humorom i satirom. Preminuo je u Zagrebu 15.9.1963. godine.
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Francesco Pittau
Francesco Pittau è nato in Sardegna ma è di nazionalità belga. Attualmente vive e lavora a Bruxelles. È autore di numerosi libri per bambini insieme a Bernadette Gervais e proprio alcuni dei loro maggiori successi sono stati tradotti per la prima volta in Italia da Il Castoro
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Paul Rusesabagina
Paul Rusesabagina is a Rwandan human rights activist. He worked as the manager of the Hôtel des Mille Collines in Kigali, during a period in which it housed 1,268 Hutu and Tutsi refugees fleeing the Interahamwe militia during the Rwandan genocide. None of these refugees were hurt or killed during the attacks.
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Asef Bayat
Asef Bayat (Ph.D. University of Kent 1984) (Persian: آصف بیات) is Professor of Sociology and Middle Eastern studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was Professor of Sociology and Middle Eastern studies and held the Chair of Society and Culture of the Modern Middle East at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He was the Academic Director of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) and ISIM Chair of Islam and the Modern World at Leiden University from 2003 until 2009.
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Bernhard Jaumann
Bernhard Jaumann wurde 1957 in Augsburg geboren. Er studierte an der Universität München und arbeitete danach als Gymnasiallehrer für Deutsch, Geschichte, Sozialkunde und Italienisch, unterbrochen von längeren Auslandsaufenthalten in Italien, Australien, Mexico und zuletzt Namibia. Zur Zeit lebt er in Bad Aibling/Bayern und in Montesecco/Italien.
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Ab 1997 schrieb er eine Krimiserie, deren einzelne Bände jeweils einen der fünf Sinne zum Thema haben und in einer anderen Metropole spielen. Danach machte er das kleine italienische Dorf Montesecco zum Schauplatz einer erfolgreichen Krimitrilogie. Seine neuesten Werke um die Windhoeker Polizeiinspektorin Clemencia Garises sind im südlichen Afrika angesiedelt. -
Ferenc Móra
Ferenc Móra was born in Kiskunfélegyháza, into a financially poor family. His father Márton Móra was a tailor, and his mother Anna Juhász was a baker. He acquired his formal education under the most extreme hardships because of the financial poverty of his family. At the Budapest University he earned the degree of Geography and History education but worked as a teacher only for one year at Felsőlövő, Vas county. He was a prominent figure of youth literature in Hungary. His parallel career of museology started in 1904 at the combined library and museum of Szeged serving the county capital of Szeged and its surrounding Csongrád county. He was appointed as the director of the combined library and museum of Szeged and Csongrád county in 1917 an
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Josip Cvenić
Josip Cvenić rođen je 1952. godine u Osijeku. Osnovnu i srednju školu završio je u rodnom gradu, Filozofski fakultet, studij filozofije i sociologije, završio je 1976. u Sarajevu. Nekoliko godina radi kao profesor u gimnaziji, a 1980. zapošljava se kao urednik u Izdavačkom centru Radničkog sveučilišta u Osijeku. 1990. godine izabran je za glavnog urednika časopisa za književnost i kulturu Revija (Književna revija). Danas radi kao tajnik i urednik u Matici hrvatskoj Osijek. Član je Društva hrvatskih književnika.
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David McCallum
Librarian Note: There is more than one author with this name.
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David McCallum was a Scottish actor best known for playing Russian spy Illya Kuryakin in the television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964-1968) and medical examiner Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard on NCIS (2003-2023).
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Katja Petrowskaja
Katja Petrowskaja was born in Kyiv in 1970, to a Russian-speaking family. She studied literature in Tartu, Estonia and then completed her PhD in Moscow. She has lived in Berlin since 1999. She won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2013 and wrote her bestselling first book Maybe Esther, in German. It was published in 2014 and was awarded the Premio Strega Europeo Prize, the Aalen Town Schubart Literary Prize, the Ernst Toller Prize and the Aspekte Literature Prize. It was a Spiegel bestseller and has been translated into nineteen languages
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Hrvoje Kovačević
Rođen je u Požegi 1966. godine gdje je završio osnovnu i srednju školu. Bavio se amaterskim filmom, autor je tri animirana i jednog kratkog igranog filma. Diplomirao je arhitekturu u Zagrebu. Crtao je karikature u "Studentskom listu", "Poletu", "Oku", "Sportskim novostima", "Reviji SN", "Startu" i dr. Dugi niz godina radio je u marketinškoj agenciji. Objavio je nekoliko romana za djecu i odrasle. Objavio je i niz kratkih priča i drama od kojih su neke objavljene u časopisima ili igrane na Drugom programu Hrvatskog radija. Od 2002. godine je profesionalni pisac, te je za roman Tajna crne kutije dobio nagradu Grigor Vitez.
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Anđelka Martić
Anđelka Martić (Zagreb, 1. svibnja 1924. – Zagreb, 11. studenoga 2020.) hrvatska je književnica i prevoditeljica, poznata po svojim djelima za djecu. Najčitanije joj je djelo kratki roman Pirgo, priča o prijateljstvu dječaka i laneta u danima Drugog svjetskog rata.
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Rođena je u Zagrebu 1. svibnja 1924. godine. Odrasla je na zagrebačkoj Trešnjevci, u obitelji s troje djece od kojih je ona bila srednje. Otac joj umire 1933. godine, a majka često zbog bolesti izbiva pa Anđelka provodi vrijeme kod očinskih bake i djeda na selu. To djetinjstvo između sela i grada kasnije će joj postati jedan od glavnih motiva i inspiracija te će ga opisati u mnogima od svojih knjiga.
Početkom Drugoga svjetskog rata završava tadašnju Srednju trgovačku školu u Zagreb