Marc-Uwe Kling
Marc-Uwe Kling wurde geboren. Er studierte an der Großen Akademie von Lagado, wie man ein Haus vom Dach her nach unten baut. Er hat über seinen Mitbewohner, ein kommunistisches Känguru, drei kapitalismuskritische Bücher geschrieben, welche sich total gut verkaufen. Außerdem macht er mit seiner Band „Die Gesellschaft“ Reformhauspunk und am Ende muss wieder der Steuerzahler für alles aufkommen. Hey. Ho. Let’s go.
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Christine Fehér
Im Januar 1965 wurde ich als einziges Mädchen zwischen zwei Brüdern in Berlin geboren und bin in der City rund um den Ku`damm aufgewachsen. Diese Gegend betrachte ich auch heute noch als meine eigentliche Heimat und muss sie ab und zu sehen, obwohl ich mich eigentlich überall schnell einlebe.
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Nach meiner Schulzeit und dem Abitur 1984 absolvierte ich die Ausbildung zur evangelischen Religionslehrerin am Pädagogisch-Theologischen Institut in Berlin. Seit 1984 habe ich in verschiedenen Berliner Schulen dieses Fach unterrichtet. Besonders wichtige Erfahrungen habe ich dabei in den Jahren gesammelt, in denen ich in der Schule einer Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie gearbeitet habe. Im Moment arbeite ich an einer Grundschule.
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Karsten Dusse
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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. -
Markus Heitz
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Rebecca Gablé
Rebecca Gablé wurde am 25. September 1964 in einer Kleinstadt am Niederrhein geboren. Nach dem Abitur 1984 machte sie eine Lehre als Bankkauffrau. In diesem Beruf hat sie anschließend auch vier Jahre gearbeitet, meistens auf einem Stützpunkt der Royal Air Force, wo sie viel über England, seine Sprache und seine Menschen gelernt hat. Aber die Lust am Erzählen hatte Rebecca Gablé immer schon, und 1990, nachdem sie ihren ersten Roman geschrieben hatte, gab sie ihren erlernten Broterwerb auf, um aus der Lust einen Beruf zu machen. Sie begann ein Literaturstudium in Düsseldorf, dessen Schwerpunkt sich mehr und mehr zur Mediävistik - der Lehre vom Mittelalter - verlagerte.
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Ken Mogi
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* 茂木 健一郎 (Japanese)
* Ken Mogi (English)
* โมงิ เคนอิจิโร่ (Thai)
Kenichirō "Ken" Mogi (茂木 健一郎 Mogi Kenichirō) is a Japanese scientist. He is a senior researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratories and a visiting professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. According to the profile posted at his personal blog, his mission is "to solve the so-called mind-brain problem."
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Diogenes of Sinope
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Diogenes of Sinope was a controversial figure. His father minted coins for a living, and when Diogenes took to debasement of currency, he was banished from Sinope. After being exiled, he moved to Athens to debunk cultural conventions. Diogenes modelled himself on the example of Hercules. He believed that virtue was better revealed in action than in theory. He used his simple lifestyl -
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Ilija Trojanow
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Pat O'Shea
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Pat O'Shea (22 January 1931 – 3 May 2007), was an award-winning and best-selling children's fiction writer. She was born in Galway and was the youngest of 5 children. Her first novel was the best-selling The Hounds of the Morrigan, which took 13 years to complete. It was finally published in 1985 by Oxford University Press, translated into five languages, and is still considered among the best classic children's books.
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Frank Schätzing
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Sven Nordqvist
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David first started to draw when he was very young, creating Star Wars and Indiana Jones ‘mash up’ comics for his older brother and sister. Since then David’s work has appeared in magazines, newspapers, books and on T-shirts. He has also exhibited his illustrations in both solo and group shows in the U.K, Europe and America.
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Andreas Eschbach
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Eschbach studied aerospace engineering at the University of Stuttgart and later worked as a software engineer. He has been writing since he was 12 years old. His first professional publication was the short story Dolls, published in 1991 in German computing magazine C't. His first novel was published in 1995. Five of his novels have won the Kurd-Laßwitz-Award, one of the most prestigious awards in the German SF scene.
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Thorsten Nesch
Since 2014 I live in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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My stories received literary grants and awards nationally and internationally. In the last years I did more than 1500 readings in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, Denmark, Italy and on two cruises.
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Karen Duve
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Born on 30 October 1968 in Vienna, Ursula Poznanski (a.k.a. Ursula P. Archer), after finishing high school, she began studying Japanese studies, journalism, law and theater.
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She has worked as a medical journalist since 1996.
She has been a published book author since 2003.
She lives with her family in the south of Vienna.
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Geboren am 30. Oktober 1968 in Wien. Nach Beendigung des Gymnasiums Studium der: Japanologie, Publizistik, Rechtswissenschaften, Theaterwissenschaften (in ungefähr dieser Reihenfolge, ohne Gewähr und ohne Abschluss).
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Mij Kelly
What could be more beautiful than the laughter of children? That's why I write. You can find out more about me and my books, and read essays for children - and adults - on imagination and the craft of writing at my website.
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Look out for The Bump, which will be published on 6th October. I wrote it when my daughter was expecting my first grandchild - now four years old and starting school! I was so aware, when I was writing it, of what a journey pregnancy is, and how women throw their all into it to help their babies grow. It seemed to me that the boundless love and hope and courage of the mum-to-be wasn't very often celebrated. So that's what I set
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Jean Améry
Jean Améry (October 31, 1912 – October 17, 1978), born Hanns Chaim Mayer, was an Austrian essayist whose work was often informed by his experiences during World War II.
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Formerly a philosophy and literature student in Vienna, Améry's participation in organized resistance against the Nazi occupation of Belgium resulted in his detainment and torture by the German Gestapo, and several years of imprisonment in concentration camps. Améry survived internments in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, and was finally liberated at Bergen-Belsen in 1945. After the war he settled in Belgium.
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Thé Tjong-Khing
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Roger Willemsen
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Walter Moers
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David Safier
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Pip Murphy
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Andreas Winkelmann
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Er schreibt auch unter den Pseudonymen Frank Kodiak und Hendrik Winter.
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Helene Hegemann
Helene Hegemann is a German writer, director, and actress. As a young writer her work was highly praised, but her first novel, Axolotl Roadkill, sparked a plagiarism controversy.
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Rachel Bright
Rachel is a writer of words, drawer of pictures and champion of silver linings. She exhibits widely, writes tirelessly and frequently creates slightly unhinged characters.
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Her written work includes children’s stories and poems, clever advertising copy and lots of other stuff besides. Her illustrative work is a smorgasboard of giant, hand-printed poems, mind-bogglingly detailed gouache illustrations and a cacophony of quirky prints and etchings.
She explores the lovliness of words and the magic of pictures, revelling in a world of jam-eating miniature bears and other made-up animals.
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@kriegundfreitag heißt eigentlich Tobias Vogel und veröffentlicht seit 2017 in verschiedenen sozialen Netzwerken seine mittlerweile berühmten humorvollen und poetischen Strichmenschen-Zeichnungen. Der Name „Krieg und Freitag" entstand durch die Autokorrektur seines Handys, das „Freitag" statt „Frieden" schrieb.
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Größere Bekanntheit erlangte er mit seiner Strichmännchenkette und der damit verbundenen Spendenaktion, die er 2018 anlässlich der Ausschreitungen in Chemnitz zeichnete. 2019 gewann er den Grimme Online Award in der Kategorie „Kultur und Unterhaltung", 2020 den Max-und-Moritz-Publikumspreis. -
Masanobu Fukuoka
Masanobu Fukuoka was born in 1914 in a small farming village on the island of Shikoku in Southern Japan. He was educated in microbiology and worked as a soil scientist specializing in plant pathology, but at the age of twenty-five he began to have doubts about the "wonders of modern agriculture science."
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While recovering from a severe attack of pneumonia, Fukuoka experienced a moment of satori or personal enlightenment. He had a vision in which something one might call true nature was revealed to him. He saw that all the "accomplishments" of human civilization are meaningless before the totality of nature. He saw that humans had become separated from nature and that our attempts to control or even understand all the complexities of life were -
Bernhard Moestl
Nach der Matura in Wien begann Bernhard Moestl eine Ausbildung zum Berufsfotografen, die er mit der Meisterprüfung beendete. Schon in seiner frühen Jugend verspürte er nach eigenen Angaben eine Faszination für die asiatische Philosophie und Kampfkunst. Seit 1991 ist er als Reiseleiter mit Schwerpunkt Osteuropa und Asien für verschiedene Veranstalter in Österreich und Deutschland tätig. Wesentliche Erfahrungen machte Moestl bei seinen Aufenthalten im Shaolin-Kloster in der chinesischen Provinz Henan. Dort lebte er mit den Mönchen und studierte ihre "Gedankenmacht". Heute ist er als Autor, internationaler Vortragsredner sowie Unternehmenscoach tätig. Er lebt in Brașov und ist Geschäftsführer der SC brainworx Europe SRL.
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Mira Lobe
Mira Lobe wurde 1913 in der niederschlesischen Handelsstadt Görlitz in einer jüdischen Kaufmannsfamilie geboren. Nach dem Besuch der Volksschule absolvierte sie hier das Gymnasium, wo sie 1933 maturierte. Nach ihrer Schulzeit wollte sie Germanistik und Kunstgeschichte studieren, jedoch war ihr dies als Jüdin untersagt. Nach Abschluss der Textil- und Modeschule in Berlin wanderte sie 1936 nach Palästina aus; Mutter, Großmutter und Schwester sollten später nachkommen. Im Sommer 1940 heiratete sie den deutschen Schauspieler und Regisseur Friedrich Lobe (* 1889)[1], der am Arbeitertheater „Ohel“ in Tel Aviv wirkte. 1944 brachte sie Tochter Claudia und 1947 Sohn Reinhardt zur Welt. Danach begann sie zu schreiben.
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Marcus Hünnebeck
Marcus Hünnebeck was born in Bochum, Germany, and studied economics at the university there before becoming an author. After self-publishing several successful titles in his home country, including Die Rache des Stalkers (The Stalker's Vengeance), Hünnebeck teamed up with Amazon Publishing for his latest release, Mark of Cain. Hünnebeck currently lives in the Rhineland.
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Sophie Passmann
Sophie Passmann, geboren 1994, lebt in Baden-Württemberg, vor allem aber auf Bühnen in ganz Deutschland. Mit 15 Jahren nahm sie an ihrem ersten Poetry Slam teil, danach kamen Auftritte in Deutschland, Schweiz und Österreich. Sie gewann 2011 die Slam-Meisterschaften in Baden-Württemberg und stand im U20-Finale der deutschen Meisterschaften.
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Kurt Krömer
Kurt Krömer, alias Alexander Bojcan, wurde 1974 geboren und ist Komiker und Schauspieler. Er ist vielfach ausgezeichnet, u.a. mit dem Deutschen Fernsehpreis und dem Grimme-Preis. Seine Sendung »Chez Krömer« läuft im rbb und auf YouTube und wird millionenfach geguckt. Zuletzt war er in der Comedy-Show »LOL – Last one laughing« zu sehen.
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Margit Auer
"Schreiben macht glücklich", findet die Kinderbuchautorin Margit Auer. Für sie gibt es nichts Schöneres, als in magische Welten einzutauchen und neue Figuren zu erfinden. Zunächst sah es jedoch gar nicht danach aus, als würde sie Schriftstellerin werden...
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Margit Auer verbrachte ihre Kindheit und Jugend in Waldkraiburg. Ihr Berufswunsch damals: Postbotin. Ihre Hobbys: Klavierspielen und Lesen.
Sie hat zwei ältere Brüder. Margit Auer machte am Rupertigymnasium Mühldorf Abitur und studierte anschließend Diplom-Journalistik an der Katholischen Universität Eichstätt. Zum Studium gehörten jede Menge Praktika, die sie beim "Mühldorfer Anzeiger", beim "Bayerischen Rundfunk", bei einer Reisezeitschrift und einer Nachrichtenagentur absolvierte. Sie -
Laetitia Colombani
Laetitia Colombani est une réalisatrice, actrice, scénariste et écrivaine française.
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Après deux années de classe préparatoire Cinésup à Nantes, elle entre à l’École Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière. Elle obtient son diplôme en 1998.
Elle écrit et réalise des courts-métrages, puis deux longs-métrages : "À la folie... pas du tout (2002) avec Audrey Tautou, Samuel le Bihan et Isabelle Carré, qui remporte le Prix Sopadin Junior du Meilleur Scénario, puis "Mes stars et moi" (2008) avec Kad Merad et Catherine Deneuve.
Elle est également comédienne à la télévision et au cinéma, dans une douzaine de longs métrages, dont "Cloclo" de Florent Emilio Siri, sorti en 2012.
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Max Velthuijs
Max Velthuijs was a celebrated Dutch illustrator, painter, and author best known for his beloved Frog picture book series. Although he began illustrating children’s books relatively late in life, his work quickly gained international acclaim. His first major success came with A is een aapje in 1964, and he achieved global recognition with Frog in Love, published in 1989 by Andersen Press after it was initially rejected in Europe. The Frog series, which eventually included over twenty titles, became known for its gentle, heartfelt storytelling and philosophical depth, earning Velthuijs comparisons to modern-day fables.
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Throughout his career, Velthuijs collaborated with prominent publishers and saw his books translated and performed in various -
Ronya Othmann
Ronya Othmann, geboren 1993 in München, studiert seit 2014 am Deutschen Literaturinstitut Leipzig. Sie arbeitet als Autorin und Journalistin, schreibt Lyrik, Prosa und Essay. Mit Cemile Sahin schreibt sie zusammen die Kolumne OrientExpress in der taz. Sie war Mentee im Mentoring-Programm der Neuen deutschen Medienmacher*innen.
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Für ihre Arbeit wurde sie vielfach ausgezeichnet u.a. mit dem Aufenthaltsstipendium im Künstlerhaus Lukas 2015, den MDR-Literaturpreis 2015. 2017 gewann sie den Caroline-Schlegel-Förderpreis für Essay und den Open Mike für Lyrik, 2018 erhielt sie mit Beliban zu Stolberg und Eser Aktay zusammen das Grenzgängerstipendium für die Türkei der Robert-Bosch-Stiftung. 2019 erhielt sie den Publikumspreis beim Ingeborg-Bachmann -
Joseph von Eichendorff
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (March 10, 1788 – November 26, 1857) was a German poet and novelist of the later German romantic school.
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Eichendorff is regarded as one of the most important German Romantics and his works have sustained high popularity in Germany from production to the present day. -
Rob Delaney
I'm a comedian. I wrote a book called Rob Delaney: Mother Wife Sister Human Warrior Falcon Yardstick Turban Cabbage. I love to read.
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Ulli Olvedi
Ulli Olvedi (*1942) ist Autorin zahlreicher spiritueller Bestseller, Wissenschaftsjournalistin, Begründerin und Lehrerin der "Meditativen Energiearbeit" und Kennerin des tibetischen Buddhismus.
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Roman- und Sachbuchautorin, Dokumentarfilmautorin, Journalistin, Übersetzerin.
Diplomierte Qi Gong-Lehrerin.
Langjährige Seminarleitung im Bereich Buddhistische Spiritualität und Kontemplative Therapie.
Viele Übersetzungen aus dem Englischen, vorwiegend buddhistische Literatur.
Beiträge in Fachbüchern und Zeitschriften über buddhistische Themen.
15 Jahre regelmäßige Mitarbeit bei Radio Bremen "Forum der Wissenschaft".
Features bei WDR und NDR und freie Mitarbeit beim Bayerischen Fernsehen.
1974 bis 2001 Dozentin an der Münchner Volkshochschule:
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Alexander Steffensmeier
1977 in Lippstadt geboren und anschließend einige Kilometer von dort in Mantinghausen aufgewachsen. Ostwestfale also.
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Im Kindergarten Kastanienmännchen, in der Schule Abitur und in der Altenpflege
Zivildienst gemacht.
Ab 1998 Designstudium mit Schwerpunkt Illustration an der Fachhochschule Münster.
Diplom im Juli 2004.
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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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Lyman Frank Baum
See L. Frank Baum.
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Lyman Frank Baum, born on May 15, 1856, in New York, and passed away on May 6, 1919, was an American author, best known for his enduring classic, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." A man of diverse talents and interests, Baum tried his hand at various professions before finding his true calling in writing. He began his literary career with children's books and then ventured into playwriting and journalism. "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," published in 1900, marked a turning point in Baum's life and American children's literature. This magical tale, rich in imagination and filled with memorable characters, such as Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion, captivated readers worldwide. Baum's vision of a fantastica -
Gordon Dahlquist
Gordon Dahlquist, also credited as G.W. Dahlquist, is a novelist and a playwright.
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Lion Feuchtwanger
Lion Feuchtwanger was a German Jewish emigre. A renowned novelist and playwright who fled Europe during World War II and lived in Los Angeles from 1941 until his death.
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A fierce critic of the Nazi regime years before it assumed power precipitated his departure, after a brief internment in France, from Europe. He and his wife Marta obtained asylum in the United States in 1941 and remained there in exile until they died. -
Nico Sternbaum
Nico Sternbaum hat schon als Kind begeistert gezeichnet und Geschichten erfunden. Mit seinen Eltern erkundete er unter anderem Südafrika und baute sich im Obstgarten der Großeltern ein Abenteuer-Baumhaus. Nach dem Abitur machte er sein Diplom an einer Kunsthochschule. Heute ist er erfolgreicher Illustrator und Bestsellerautor. Seine Bücher wurden von der Presse gelobt und in andere Sprachen übersetzt (u. a. ins Chinesische). "Schüttel den Apfelbaum" landete auf der SPIEGEL-Bestsellerliste, und mehrere Titel wurden von der Stiftung Lesen vorgestellt und empfohlen. Nico Sternbaum lebt in Wiesbaden. Er liebt Reisen, koreanisches Essen und Museen.
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G.R. Halliday
G.R. Halliday lives in the rural Highlands outside of Inverness, where he is pursues mountain climbing and swimming in the sea. From the Shadows is his debut crime novel.
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Elli H. Radinger
Elli H. Radinger is a German free journalist and author.
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Originally trained as a lawyer, she changed her line of work in the early 1980s, and has written numerous works on the subject of wolves, dogs, and nature since. -
Steffen Mau
Steffen Mau is a German sociologist and Professor at the institute of social sciences at Humboldt University Berlin.
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Leonore Fleischer
Leonore Fleischer has written more than fifty novelizations of films. She and her five cats live in Upstate New York.
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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 -
Helga Glaesener
Helga Glaesener is a German author of historical, mystery and fantasy novels.
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She also writes crime novels under the pseudonym Tomke Schriever. -
Lieve Baeten
Lieve Baeten was a Flemish author and illustrator, best known for her picture-book series about Lotje, the curious little witch. She studied graphic design at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts, and married Koen Fossey in 1976.
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Baeten's stories about Lotje (Patou in French, Die kleine Hexe in German, and Lizzie in English) have been translated into fourteen languages, and the author/artist has received several important prizes, from the "Boekenpauw" in 1993 for Nieuwsgierige Lotje (The Curious Little Witch), to the "Kinderboekwinkelprijs" in 1995 for Lotje is Jarig (Happy Birthday, Little Witch!).
Baeten was killed in a car accident in 2001. -
Guido Van Genechten
Guido Van Genechten is een Vlaamse schrijver en illustrator.
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Guido Van Genechten in de Nederlandstalige Wikipedia
Guido Van Genechten is a Flemish writer and illustrator. -
Eckart von Hirschhausen
Eckart von Hirschhausen is a German physician and comedian.
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He is known for heavily incorporating his medical knowledge in his comedy acts as well as his books, excerpts from which he sometimes reads on stage. -
Sebastian Hotz
Sebastian Hotz, geboren 1996, aufgewachsen in Franken, absolvierte ein duales Studium in Wirtschaftswissenschaften in Erlangen/Nürnberg, bevor ihn die Windungen des Internets erst nach Bielefeld und schließlich nach Berlin führten. Seine gesellschaftskritischen und treffsicheren Postings auf Instagram und Twitter werden täglich von 1,5 Millionen Menschen gelesen. Außerdem ist er Autor beim ZDF Magazin Royale, Podcaster und gefragter Gesprächspartner in zahlreichen Medien.
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Phillip P. Peterson
Phillip P. Peterson worked as an engineer on booster rockets and as satellite program manager; he has also written popular science articles about space travel. At the 2015 Frankfurt Book Fair he received the first Kindle Storyteller Award. Characters and action take centerstage in his hardcore science fiction that profits from Peterson's technical background.
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Robin Jarvis
Robin Jarvis (born May 8, 1963) is a British children's novelist, who writes fantasy novels, often about anthropomorphic rodents and small mammals—especially mice—and Tudor times. A lot of his works are based in London, in and around Deptford and Greenwich where he used to live, or in Whitby.
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His first novel—The Dark Portal, featuring the popular Deptford Mice—was the runner up for the Smarties book prize in 1989. -
Andreas Winkelmann
Andreas Winkelmann ist ein deutscher Schriftsteller und Thrillerautor. Er lebt mit seiner Familie in einem einsamen Haus am Waldrand nahe Bremen. Wenn er nicht gerade in menschliche Abgründe abtaucht, überquert er zu Fuß die Alpen, steigt dort auf die höchsten Berge oder fischt und jagt mit Pfeil und Bogen in der Wildnis Kanadas.
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Er schreibt auch unter den Pseudonymen Frank Kodiak und Hendrik Winter.
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Andreas Winkelmann is a German writer and thriller author. He lives with his family in a lonely house on the edge of a forest near Bremen. When he is not diving into human abysses, he crosses the Alps on foot, climbs the highest mountains there or fishes and hunts with bow and arrow in the wilderness of Canada.
He also -
Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim
Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim is a German chemist, science communicator, television presenter and YouTuber.
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Nguyen-Kim started the YouTube channel The Secret Life Of Scientists in 2015. She began another channel, maiLab, in 2016, which is currently active and funded by German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF. It has nearly 900,000 subscribers as of April 2020. Her videos explaining various everyday topics in a scientific and specifically, chemical way in a simple and understandable form, made it into German YouTube trends many times and reached several million viewers within a short time.
On German television, Nguyen-Kim presents the science show Quarks (WDR Fernsehen) since 2018, alongside Ralph Caspers. With Harald Lesch and Philip Häusser she present -
Andreas Steinhöfel
Born in 1962 in Battenberg, Germany, Steinhöfel now works as a translator and reviewer and writes screenplays. First and foremost, though, he is the author of numerous children's and young adult books awarded with various literature prizes. His bestseller "The Center of the World" was nominated for the well-known and prestigious German Youth Literature Prize and has been published in numerous countries worldwide.
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Steinhöfel was awarded the Erich Kästner Prize in 2009, after Peter Rühmkorf, Loriot, Robert Gernhardt, and Tomi Ungerer. In the same year, he was also awarded several literary prizes for his work "Rico, Oskar und die Tieferschatten", including the German Youth Literature Prize, the Catholic Children's and Youth Literature Prize as -
Emilie Pine
Emilie Pine is an Associate Professor in Modern Drama at the University College Dublin, and is the author of the No.1 bestseller Notes to Self (Tramp Press).
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Andreas Steinhöfel
Born in 1962 in Battenberg, Germany, Steinhöfel now works as a translator and reviewer and writes screenplays. First and foremost, though, he is the author of numerous children's and young adult books awarded with various literature prizes. His bestseller "The Center of the World" was nominated for the well-known and prestigious German Youth Literature Prize and has been published in numerous countries worldwide.
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Steinhöfel was awarded the Erich Kästner Prize in 2009, after Peter Rühmkorf, Loriot, Robert Gernhardt, and Tomi Ungerer. In the same year, he was also awarded several literary prizes for his work "Rico, Oskar und die Tieferschatten", including the German Youth Literature Prize, the Catholic Children's and Youth Literature Prize as -
Elke Heidenreich
Elke Heidenreich is a German author, TV presenter and journalist.
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Sebastian Fitzek
Sebastian Fitzek was born in Berlin in 1971. After going to law school and being promoted to LL.D., he decided against a juridical profession for a creative occupation in the media. After the traineeship at a private radio station he switched to the competition as head of entertainment and became chief editor later on, thereafter becoming an independent executive consultant and format developer for numerous media companies in Europe. He lives in Berlin and is currently working in the programme management of a major capital radio station.
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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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Michael Rubens
Michael Rubens is the author of the novels The Sheriff of Yrnameer, Sons of the 613, The Bad Decisions Playlist, and Emily and the Spellstone (June 2017). He is a correspondent and producer for Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, and has previously produced for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. His writing has also appeared in places like The New Yorker Daily Shouts, Salon, and McSweeney's. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, to help alleviate that area's critical shortage of writers and producers.
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Michael is represented by John Silbersack at Trident Media Group.
PS It's pronounced "YUR-nuh-meer."
PPS I'm sure the book "Baking to Get Baked" is a fine publication and all, but while I share the same name as one of t -
Andreas Eschbach
Andreas Eschbach is a German writer who mostly writes science fiction. Even if some of his stories do not exactly fall into the SF genre, they usually feature elements of the fantastic.
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Eschbach studied aerospace engineering at the University of Stuttgart and later worked as a software engineer. He has been writing since he was 12 years old. His first professional publication was the short story Dolls, published in 1991 in German computing magazine C't. His first novel was published in 1995. Five of his novels have won the Kurd-Laßwitz-Award, one of the most prestigious awards in the German SF scene.
His novels have also been translated into a number of languages, including English, French, Italian, Russian, Polish, Turkish and Japanese.
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Walter Moers
Walter Moers was born in 1957 and is a writer, cartoonist, painter and sculptor. He has refused to be photographed ever since his comic strips The Little Asshole and Adolf were published, the latter leading him to be declared persona non grata by the political right in Germany. Walter Moers lives in Hamburg.
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Florian Freistetter
Florian Freistetter (* 28. Juli 1977 in Krems an der Donau) ist ein österreichischer Astronom, Blogger, Buchautor und Podcaster.
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Ulrika Kestere
Ulrika is a photographer, illustrator, author and art director based in Lund, Sweden.
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Her creative studies started in Lofoten, Norway, 2006. After two year with focus on photography she came back to Sweden and studied industrial design at Ingvard Kamprad Design School in Lund. After her studies she worked 3 years in advertising. Today she’s a freelancer, working on assignments within photography and illustration. She is also working part time as an Art Director at Timi of Sweden.
She has published five children’s books. Vilda grannar, Ottos ulliga tröja, Den känsliga igelkotten, Födelsedagen and Kakorna är slut! (Swedish titles). Her books have been translated to 13 languages; English, French, Italian, Russian, Danish, Latvian, Estonian, Jord -
Jean Ziegler
Jean Ziegler is a former professor of sociology at the University of Geneva and the Sorbonne, Paris. He was a Member of Parliament for the Social Democrats in the Federal Assembly of Switzerland from 1981 to 1999. He has also held several positions with the United Nations, especially as Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food from 2000 to 2008, and as a member of the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council from 2008 to 2012.
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Fynn
Fynn is the pen name of Sydney "Sid" George Hopkins. Sid was a student and later staff member at Finchden Manor, now a defunct reform school, in Tenterden Kent. Sid Hopkins spent the last years of his life living in Taunton, Somerset, England.
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Andreas Izquierdo
ANDREAS IZQUIERDO, geboren 1968, Sohn einer spanischen Krankenschwester und eines deutschen Ingenieurs, ist Schriftsteller und Drehbuchautor.
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Er veröffentlichte u. a. den Roman >König von Albanien< (2007), der mit dem Sir- Walter-Scott-Preis für den besten historischen Roman des Jahres ausgezeichnet wurde, sowie den Roman >Apocalypsia< (2010), der den Lovelybooks-Leserpreis in Silber für das beste Buch 2010 erhielt und zum Buch des Jahres bei Vorab-lesen.de gewählt wurde. Im DuMont Buchverlag erschien von ihm >Das Glücksbüro< (2013) und >Der Club der Traumtänzer<. Bei Suhrkamp/Insel >Romeo und Romy< (2016) sowie >Fräulein Hedy träumt vom Fliegen< (2018). Im Juli 2020 erscheint >Schatten der Welt< im DuMont Buchverlag.
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Carlo Masala
Carlo Masala is a German political scientist, lecturer and researcher. He is currently professor of international politics at the Bundeswehr University Munich, lecturer at the University of Munich, and lecturer as well as member of the senate of the Munich School of Political Science. He has become known to a wider audience through frequent appearances on German television as an expert on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, publishing predictions and hypotheticals on future military operations, like the Narva scenario.
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Alexei Navalny
Alexei Anatolievich Navalny (Russian: Алексей Анатольевич Навальный) was a Russian opposition leader, lawyer, and anti-corruption activist. He came to international prominence by organizing anti-government demonstrations and running for office to advocate reforms against corruption in Russia, and against President Vladimir Putin and his government. Navalny has been described as "the man Vladimir Putin fears most" by The Wall Street Journal. He was the leader of the Russia of the Future party and the founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK).
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