Knister
Pseudonym für Ludger Jochmann. Jochmann wuchs im Ruhrgebiet auf. Er studierte Sozialpädagogik an der Universität Essen und Rhythmik an der Folkwangschule in Essen. Nach dem Erwerb seines Diploms arbeitete er als Sonderpädagoge. Seit 1978 ist er als freier Autor und Komponist tätig. Zunächst arbeitete er für Kindertheater im Ruhrgebiet, dann auch für Funk und Fernsehen. 1980 erfolgte die erste Buchveröffentlichung, gefolgt von Tonträgern, Fernsehserien, Computerspielen und Produktionen für das Kino. Sein erstes Buch für Erwachsene veröffentlichte er 2000 unter seinem bürgerlichen Namen.
Sein Pseudonym wählte Knister aus seiner Rockmusikbegeisterung. Er nutzt Musik als Ausdrucksform bei seinen Vorstellungen für Kinder und stellte fest, dass da
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R. L. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. His other -
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Andy Griffiths is Australia’s most popular children’s writer. He is the author of over 20 books, including nonsense verse, short stories, comic novels and plays. Over the past 15 years Andy’s books have been New York Times bestsellers, won over 50 children’s choice awards, been adapted as a television cartoon series and sold over 5 million copies worldwide.
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Andy is best known as the author of the much-loved Just! series and The Day My Bum Went Psycho. In 2008 Andy became the first Australian author to win six children’s choice awards in one year for Just Shocking!, smashing his previous record of 4 awards for The Bad Book in 2005.
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Defiant, the fourth and final volume of the series that started with Skyward in 2018, comes out in November 2023, capping an already book-filled year that will see the releases of all four Secret Projects: Tress of the Emerald Sea, The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter, and Secret Project Four (with its official title reveal coming October 2023). These four books were all initially offered to backers of the #1 Kickstarter campaign of all time.
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A pseudonym of Elisabetta Dami, see also Tea Stilton.
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Elisabetta Dami is an Italian author that currently resides in Italy. She is the author of the Geronimo Stilton series, a bestselling childrens book. She enjoys traveling the world seeking ideas for her series. She writes under a pseudonym of Geronimo Stilton. She is also a co-owner of Italian based publishing company Edizioni Piemme. -
Michael McDowell
Michael McDowell is a prolific horror writer who has distinguished himself with a varied body of work within the genre. He was born in Enterprise, Alabama, in 1950 and died of AIDS-related illness in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1999.
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His first horror novel, The Amulet, relates the tragedies that befall various individuals who come in possession of a supernatural pendant in a small town.
In McDowell's second novel, Cold Moon Over Babylon, a murdered woman's corpse is dispatched into a river, but her spirit roams the land, and in the evening hours it seeks revenge on her killer even as he plots the demise of her surviving relatives.
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David Baddiel
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After studying at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Elstree, he read English at King's College, Cambridge and graduated with a double first. He began studies for a PhD in English at University College London, but did not complete it.
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Augusta Huiell Seaman
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Paul van Loon
Stephen Paul Lambert Mary Elizabeth (Paul) van Loon (Geleen, April 17, 1955) is a Dutch children's author and singer of self-described 'children's book band' Paul van Loon & Andere Snuiters. The main body of his work consists of horror stories aimed at younger audiences. An avid reader of 'adult' horror authors as H.P. Lovecraft even when he was young, he felt there was not enough in the genre aimed at children. His most well-known works are the series 'Dolfje Weerwolfje' (Dolfje the Werewolf) and 'De Griezelbus' (The Horrorbus). Van Loon has been writing for over 25 years and has written over 100 books. His work has been the basis for 3 films and 2 television series.
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Jules Verne
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This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).
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Miro Gavran
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He is the only living dramatist in Europe to have a theatre festival devoted solely to his plays outside his/her homeland; the Gavranfest has been held in Slovakia since 2003.
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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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He was born in Zagreb, then part of the Habsburg Empire, into a family of Czech-German origin. His surname was originally spelled Schönoa. He studied law in Prague. He also lived in Vienna for a while, but returned to Zagreb in 1866. From 1874 to 1881, Šeno -
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Ivan Kušan
Ivan Kušan rođen je 1933. godine u Sarajevu. Školovao se te živio i radio u Zagrebu. Akademski je slikar. Radio je kao urednik na RTV Zagreb i u "Telegramu", bio je dramaturg u Zagreb-filmu, urednik u "Školskoj knjizi" te redoviti profesor Akademije dramske umjetnosti u Zagrebu. Uređivao je časopis "Most" i knjižnice "Znanja" i "Školske knjige". Autor je mnoštva drama, filmskih scenarija, radio i televizijskih drama, romana, priča, eseja i kritika. Sastavio je nekoliko antologija. Priredio je dvije samostalne izložbe. Djela su mu prevođena na više stranih jezika.
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Objavio je knjigu drama Svrha od slobode, romane Uzbuna na zelenom vrhu, Razapet između, Koko i duhovi, Domaća zadaća, Zidom zazidani, Zagonetni dječak, Lažeš, Melita, Toranj, Koko -
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Rei Izumi
Rei Idumi or Rei Izumi 依澄れい is a female Japanese manga artist. She is well known for being the artist to the manga .hack//Legend of the Twilight, and Hibiki's Magic.
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Augusta Huiell Seaman
Augusta Huiell Seaman (1879-1950) was an American author of children's literature. She graduated from Normal College in New York City in 1900 and went on to teach elementary school. Following her marriage in 1906, she devoted her time to writing children's books. While living in Island Beach, Augusta held various offices in the local government, including Borough clerk, Tax Collector, and Borough Registrar. Her works include: Jacqueline of the Carrier Pigeons (1910), The Boarded up House (1915), The Slipper Point Mystery (1919), The Dragon's Secret (1921), The Mystery at Number Six (1922), The Edge of Raven Pool (1924), The Charlemonte Crest (1930) and The Vanishing Octant Mystery (1949).
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Tito Bilopavlović
Rođen je 7.siječnja 1940. godine u Novoj Gradiški. Diplomirao je na Pravnom fakultetu u Zagrebu 1977. godine. Radio je kao urednik u Studenskom listu, tajnik za kulturu u Novoj Gradiški, kao tajnik Društva hrvatskih književnika, kolumnist tjednika Danas, urednik dječjeg lista SMIB, urednik u Školskoj knjizi. Danas vodi Tribinu DHK-a.
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Započeo je kao pjesnik zbirkama Pijesku već oplakanom (1967.), Vrt za prijatelje (1969.), Exodus (1971.) i Lov na uzvanike (1974.); sklon ludičkim elementima, urbanoj kolokvijalnosti, humornim detaljima.[1] Kasnije se posvećuje prozi, s romanom Ciao, slinavci (1977.) i novelama Plavuša i atleta (1974.), Stid (1980.) i Škola za sjećanje (1982.) u kojima se bavi likovima iz urbane sredine. [2]
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Ludwig Bauer
Croatian writer. Not to be confused with the German film critic, Ludwig Bauer.
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Ela Peroci
Ela Peroci was Slovenian children's author. Her stories are now considered classics in children's literature.
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