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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Kristina Gudonytė
Kristina Gudonytė – rašytoja („Gėlių dvaras“, „Blogos mergaitės dienoraštis“, „Ida iš šešėlių sodo“ ), spektaklių, populiarių televizijos filmų scenarijų autorė ir režisierė, aktorė, dailininkė. „Blogos mergaitės dienoraštis“ 2009 m. buvo pripažintas geriausia knyga paaugliams, „Ida iš šešėlių sodo“ – 2012-aisiais. 2014 m. K. Gudonytei už talentingą kūrybą vaikams ir paaugliams, už įtaigų intelektualinį ir psichologinį turinį, už jautrumą gimtajai kalbai buvo paskirta Švietimo ir mokslo ministerijos įsteigta Vaikų literatūros premija.
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Kim Slater
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Andrus Kivirähk
Andrus Kivirähk is an Estonian journalist, playwright and novelist. His writing style can be called self-mocking and sarcastic with dark humour. His best known work "Rehepapp ehk November", a.k.a. "Rehepapp", has been translated to Finnish and Norwegian. "Mees, kes teadis ussisõnu", a bestseller in Estonia, so popular that a board-game was based on it, has been translated to English as "The Man Who Spoke Snakish". These books, as well as his other historical-themed works such as "Ivan Orava mälestused" and "Kalevipoeg" resonated strongly with contemporary Estonian society.
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Kivirähk is also the author of the children's book "Leiutajateküla Lotte" and its sequels, and wrote the screenplay for the cartoon based on it.
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Eno Raud
He was an Estonian children's book author. He graduated from university with a course in Estonian language study in 1952. From 1952 to 1956 he worked in the Estonian National Library. From 1956 to 1965 he worked in the Estonian national publishing association. After that he retired and devoted himself to writing. His works include "Three funny friends", "The story with the flying saucer", "Fire in a darkened city", "Nii või naa" (This or that way) and others.
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John Grisham
John Grisham is the author of more than fifty consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include Framed, Camino Ghosts and The Exchange: After the Firm.
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Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.
When he's not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system.
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Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Tanizaki Prize, Yomiuri Prize for Literature, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Noma Literary Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction, the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Princess of Asturias Awards.
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Growing up in Ashiya, near Kobe before moving to Tokyo to attend Waseda University, he published his first novel Hear the -
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.
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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.
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Ron Chernow
Ron Chernow was born in 1949 in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating with honors from Yale College and Cambridge University with degrees in English Literature, he began a prolific career as a freelance journalist. Between 1973 and 1982, Chernow published over sixty articles in national publications, including numerous cover stories. In the mid-80s Chernow went to work at the Twentieth Century Fund, a prestigious New York think tank, where he served as director of financial policy studies and received what he described as “a crash course in economics and financial history.”
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Chernow’s journalistic talents combined with his experience studying financial policy culminated in the writing of his extraordinary first book, The House of Morgan: A -
Gerald Durrell
Gerald "Gerry" Malcolm Durrell was born in India in 1925. His elder siblings are Lawrence Durrell, Leslie Durrell, and Margaret Durrell. His family settled on Corfu when Gerald was a boy and he spent his time studying its wildlife. He relates these experiences in the trilogy beginning with My Family And Other Animals, and continuing with Birds, Beasts, And Relatives and The Garden Of The Gods. In his books he writes with wry humour and great perception about both the humans and the animals he meets.
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On leaving Corfu he returned to England to work on the staff of Whipsnade Park as a student keeper. His adventures there are told with characteristic energy in Beasts In My Belfry. A few years later, Gerald began organising his own animal-collec -
Ali Smith
Ali Smith is a writer, born in Inverness, Scotland, to working-class parents. She was raised in a council house in Inverness and now lives in Cambridge. She studied at Aberdeen, and then at Cambridge, for a Ph.D. that was never finished. In a 2004 interview with writing magazine Mslexia, she talked briefly about the difficulty of becoming ill with chronic fatigue syndrome for a year and how it forced her to give up her job as a lecturer at University of Strathclyde to focus on what she really wanted to do: writing. She has been with her partner Sarah Wood for 17 years and dedicates all her books to her.
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John Reynolds Gardiner
John Reynolds Gardiner was an American author and engineer. Born in Los Angeles, California, he earned his master's degree from UCLA. He was a successful engineer before working on his first children's book. Always creative, in his younger years he ran Num Num Novelties, home to such originals as the aquarium tie. He lived in West Germany and Central America, and taught writing workshops around the world. In Idaho he heard of a legend on which he based his first book, Stone Fox. Gardiner also edited children's stories for television. He lived out his final years with his wife, Gloria, in California and died of complications from pancreatitis at a hospital in Anaheim, California. He is survived by three daughters, Carrie, Alicia, and Daniell
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Julia Donaldson
Growing up
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I grew up in a tall Victorian London house with my parents, grandmother, aunt, uncle, younger sister Mary and cat Geoffrey (who was really a prince in disguise. Mary and I would argue about which of us would marry him).
Mary and I were always creating imaginary characters and mimicking real ones, and I used to write shows and choreograph ballets for us. A wind-up gramophone wafted out Chopin waltzes.
I studied Drama and French at Bristol University, where I met Malcolm, a guitar-playing medic to whom I’m now married.
Busking and books
Before Malcolm and I had our three sons we used to go busking together and I would write special songs for each country; the best one was in Italian about pasta.
The busking led to a career in singing a -
Otfried Preußler
Otfried Preußler (sometimes spelled as Otfried Preussler) was a German children's books author. His best-known works are The Robber Hotzenplotz and The Satanic Mill (Krabat).
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He won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1972 for Krabat.
He has sold roughly 50 million copies worldwide.
He was born in Liberec (German: Reichenberg), Czechoslovakia. His forefathers had lived in this area since the 15th century, working in the glass industry. His parents were teachers. After he graduated school in 1942, in the midst of World War II, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht Heer. Although he survived the military action on the Eastern Front, he was taken prisoner as a 21-year-old lieutenant in 1944. He spent the next five years in various POW camps in the -
Guillaume Musso
One of the most popular authors in France today. From his early childhood with reading books and plays, Guillaume Musso became convinced that one day, he too would write novels. After finishing high school in France, Guillaume Musso left for the United States at the age of 19. He spent several months in New York City, living with other young foreigners and earning his money by selling ice-cream. He came home to France with his head filled with ideas for novels. The readers can easily see the influence his time in the United States has had on him, as the action in his books takes place overseas. He currently teaches in a high school in the south of France, all the while working on his novels. His first published novel was with Editions Anne
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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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Annie M.G. Schmidt
Anna Maria Geertruida Schmidt was a Dutch writer.
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Although she wrote a variety of poems, songs, books, plays, musicals, and radio- en television drama, she is known best for her children's literature, for which she received the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1988. She committed suicide a day after her 84th birthday and was buried in Amsterdam. -
Jules Verne
Novels of French writer Jules Gabriel Verne, considered the founder of modern science fiction, include Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).
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This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).
Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft. He ranks behind Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie as the second most translated author of all time. People made his prominent films. People often refer to Verne alongside Herbert George Wells as the "father of science fiction."
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Timothée de Fombelle
As a child...
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Timothee de Fombelle was born in the heart of Paris in 1973, but often accompanied his architect father on his travels to Africa. Each summer his family left for the countryside (the west of France), where the five brothers and sisters lived like wild horses, making huts in the trees, playing in the river and losing themselves in the woods. In the evening they performed plays for their parents and devoured the books in the library. Childhood remains for him the lost paradise which he re-discovers through writing.
As an adult...
After becoming a literature teacher, Timothee taught in Paris and Vietnam before choosing the bohemian life of the theatre. Author of a dozen plays, he writes, designs, builds sets and directs the actre -
Ewald Arenz
Der Autor Ewald Arenz kam 1965 in Nürnberg zur Welt und studierte englische und amerikanische Literatur und Geschichte. Seit Beginn der 1990er Jahre ist er als Autor tätig und hat neben einigen Glossen und Kindergeschichten auch Theaterstücke und historische Kriminalromane.
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Er ist mittlerweile einer der produktivsten und erfolgreichsten Schriftsteller Süddeutschlands, dessen Gesamtauflage weit über 120.000 verkaufte Bücher zählt. -
Jonas Jonasson
After a long career as a journalist, media consultant and television producer, Jonas Jonasson decided to start a new life. He wrote a manuscript, he sold all his possessions in Sweden and moved to a small town by Lake Lugano in Switzerland, only a few meters from the Italian border.
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The manuscript became a novel. The novel became a phenomenon in Sweden, and now it is about to reach the rest of the world. -
P.L. Travers
Pamela Lyndon Travers was an Australian novelist, actress and journalist, popularly remembered for her series of children's novels about mystical nanny Mary Poppins.
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She was born to bank manager Travers Robert Goff and Margaret Agnes. Her father died when she was seven, and although "epileptic seizure delirium" was given as the cause of death, Travers herself "always believed the underlying cause was sustained, heavy drinking".
Travers began to publish her poems while still a teenager and wrote for The Bulletin and Triad while also gaining a reputation as an actress. She toured Australia and New Zealand with a Shakespearean touring company before leaving for England in 1924. There she dedicated herself to writing under the pen name P. L. Trav -
Stefanie Sargnagel
Stefanie Sargnagel, geb. 1986, studierte in der von Daniel Richter angeleiteten Klasse der Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien Malerei, verbrachte aber mehr Zeit bei ihrem Brotjob im Call-Center, denn: «Immer wenn mein Professor Daniel Richter auf Kunststudentenpartys auftaucht, verhalten sich plötzlich alle so, als würde Gott zu seinen Jüngern sprechen. Ich weiß nie, wie ich damit umgehen soll, weil ich ja Gott bin.» Seit 2016 ist sie freie Autorin – und verbringt seitdem mehr Zeit bei ihrem Steuerberater.
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Karsten Dusse
KARSTEN DUSSE, Jahrgang 1973, Rechtsanwalt, Studium in Bonn, Lausanne und Los Angeles. Nach erfolgreicher Tätigkeit als Drehbuch- und Sachbuchautor wurde sein Debütroman Achtsam morden zum meistverkauften Taschenbuch des Jahres 2020.
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Seine Romane wurden bislang in 21 Sprachen übersetzt und stehen regelmäßig an der Spitze der Bestsellerlisten. Ausgezeichnet wurde seine Arbeit mit dem Deutschen Fernsehpreis, dem Deutschen Comedypreis und dem Deutschen Hörbuchpreis. Seine Hörbücher haben Gold- und Platin-Status erreicht. -
Caroline Wahl
Caroline Wahl (born 1995 in Mainz) is a German author. Her debut novel, 22 Bahnen, was published in April 2023 by DuMont Buchverlag. After her school days, she studied German studies and German literature in Tübingen and Berlin. After that and among other things, she worked as a publishing assistant of the Diogenes Verlag in Zürich. Her love of the sea led her to Northern Germany in 2022 where she worked for a communications agency in Rostock. Since the success of her debut novel, she lives as an independent author in the Hansestadt.
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Jaanus Vaiksoo
Jaanus Vaiksoo on sündinud 5. jaanuaril 1967 Paides.
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Aastatel 1974-85 õppis Tallinna 32. Keskkoolis, 1985-91 Tallinna Pedagoogilises Instituudis ning täiendas end Greifswaldi, Viini ja Tampere ülikoolis. 1994. aasta kevadel kaitses magistritööd teemal „August Gailiti romaani „Toomas Nipernaadi” lugemismudelid”. Aastatel 1991-2000 oli J. Vaiksoo Tallinna Pedagoogikaülikooli eesti kirjanduse õppetooli õppejõud ja tegeles eesti kirjanduse ajaloo uurimisega. Ta on õpetanud Tallinna Reaalkoolis ja Rocca al Mare Koolis eesti keelt ja kirjandust ning Vanalinna Gümnaasiumis keskaja kirjandust. Aastast 2008 töötab Jaanus Vaiksoo eesti kirjanduse lektorina Tallinna Ülikoolis.
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Rodrigo Muñoz Avia
Rodrigo Muñoz Avia nació en Madrid en 1967. Estudió Filosofía en la Universidad Complutense y se formó durante tres años en la Escuela de Letras de Madrid.
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Su última obra, publicada en 2021, es "La tienda de la felicidad", una novela epistolar que narra la vida de un personaje entrañable y disparatado que se relaciona con el mundo a través del correo electrónico. En palabras de Rosa Montero: "Humor, amor, un protagonista inolvidable y un poso de irremediable melancolía en esta reinvención de la novela epistolar que, bajo las risas, hace un agudo retrato de la fragilidad humana y del absurdo de la vida".
En 2019 publica "La casa de los pintores", un libro en el que narra la vida con sus padres, los pintores Lucio Muñoz y Amalia Avia, un testim -
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Richard Roht
Eesti kirjanik, kes õppis Tartus Hugo Treffneri Gümnaasiumis ja Valga Reaalkoolis.
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Alustas impressionistlike proosapaladega, tunnustuse võitis suvitusromaaniga "Hümnid Paanile", mis koos mitme novelli ja romaaniga moodustab Kurgsoo-sarja (nimetatud ka Tuulemäe-sarjaks). Kirjutanud veel arvukalt romaane, novelle, mälestusi, jutustusi ja lasteraamatuid. -
David Hill
David Hill (born 1942) is a New Zealand author, especially well known for his young adult fiction. His young fiction books See Ya, Simon (1992) and Right Where It Hurts (2001) have been shortlisted for numerous awards. He is also a prolific journalist, writing many articles for The New Zealand Herald.
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He cites Maurice Gee as his favourite author, and Joy Cowley and Margaret Mahy as his favourite children's authors.
Hill attended Victoria University in Wellington, graduating MA Hons in 1964. Hill currently lives in New Plymouth. -
Laura Varslauskaitė
Esu Laura Varslauskaitė. Gimiau 1986 m. Panevėžyje. Baigiau tuometinio Vilniaus pedagoginio instituto lietuvių kalbos specialybę. Ši mokslo įstaiga mane subrandino ir dar labiau paskatino domėtis literatūra. Šiuo metu tęsiu studijas Londono universitete. Rašyti pradėjau dar mokyklos suole, nes negaliu ir negalėjau atsispirti tuščiam popieriaus lapui, kuris visuomet į mane žiūri keistai šnairuodamas.
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Vytautas Račickas
Vytautas Račickas (slapyvardis Vytautas Dvarčionis). Gimė 1952 01 01 Anykščių rajone Keblonių kaime. 1969 m. baigė Utenos antrąją vid. mokyklą, vėliau - Vilniaus universitetą.
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Visą savo gyvenimą dirbo laikraščiuose (1974–1977 m. - laikraščio "Tarybinis mokytojas“ korespondentas, 1977–1985 m. - "Lietuvos pionierius“ korespondentas, 1987–2000 m. - "Genio“ žurnalo literatūros redaktorius, vyr. redaktorius.) Rašė prozą, daugiausia vaikams. Už knygą Zuika padūkėlis gavo Respublikinę komjaunimo premiją.
V. Račicko kūriniuose keliamos opiausios problemos, tokios kaip tėvų skyrybos, nesutarimai, mokykla. Visos jos pateikiamos grakščiai, be nereikalingo banalumo. Apsakymai lengvi, suprantami, tačiau tuo pat metu įtraukiantys ir sudominantys. Knygų h