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).
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
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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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Jenny-Mai Nuyen wurde 1988 als Tochter deutsch-vietnamesischer Eltern in München geboren. Geschichten schreibt sie, seit sie fünf ist, und mit dreizehn verfasste sie ihren ersten Roman. Ihr literarisches Debüt "Nijura – Das Erbe der Elfenkrone" gilt sie als eine der aufregendsten Entdeckungen der letzten Jahre. Jenny-Mai Nuyen studiert Filmwissenschaft an der New York University.
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Uwe Timm was the youngest son in his family. His brother, 16 years his senior, was a soldier in the Waffen SS and died in Ukraine in 1943. Decades later, Uwe Timm approached his relationship with his father and brother in the critically acclaimed novel In my brother's shadow.
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After working as a furrier, Timm studied Philosophy and German in Munich and Paris, achieving a PhD in German literature in 1971 with his thesis: The Problem of Absurdity in the Works of Albert Camus. During his studies, Timm was engaged in leftist activities of the 1960s. He became a member of the Socialist German Student Union and was associated with Benno Ohnesorg. From 1973 to 1981 he was a member of the German Communist Party. Three times Timm has been called as a -
Wolfgang Herrndorf
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He published his first novel, In Plüschgewittern (Storm of Plush), in 2002. This was followed by a collection of short stories, Diesseits des Van-Allen-Gürtels (This Side of the Van Allen Belt, 2007), which received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize Audience Award.
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From 1916 to 1933, she appeared as a film actress (mostly under the name Magda Papir). One year after marrying Béla Szepes in 2 January 1931, she accompanied him to Berlin, where they lived until Hungary's Anschluß towards war's end. In her book Magie der Liebe ("Magic of Love"), Szepes writes about the marriage, which lasted -
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Astrid Lindgren
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Heinrich Hoffmann
Note: There is more than one Heinrich Hoffman.
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Heinrich Hoffmann was a German psychiatrist, who also wrote some short works including Der Struwwelpeter (German for either "slovenly Peter" or "shock-haired Peter"), an illustrated book portraying children misbehaving.
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Paul Davies
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Paul Davies has worked in journalism for over 25 years, first editing gaming magazines and websites and now as a writer and consultant to games developers and publishers. He is the co-author of numerous gaming books including The Art of Assassin’s Creed Origins, The Art of Deus Ex Universe, The Art of Horizon Zero Dawn, Awakening The Art of Halo 4, The Art of Thief and Tales From the Sea of Thieves. -
Karen Duve
Karen Duve, 1961 in Hamburg geboren, lebt in der Märkischen Schweiz. Sie wurde mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet. Ihre Romane »Regenroman« (1999), »Dies ist kein Liebeslied« (2005), »Die entführte Prinzessin« (2005), »Taxi« (2008) und »Macht« (2016) waren Bestseller und wurden in zahlreiche Sprachen übersetzt. 2011 erschien ihr Selbstversuch »Anständig essen«, 2014 die Streitschrift »Warum die Sache schiefgeht«. Die Verfilmung ihres Romans »Taxi« kam im Sommer 2015 ins Kino.
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Ursula Poznanski
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.
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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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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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He was born on 13 December 1937 in Schweinfurt. After the early death of his mother he lived with his grandfather in the rural area of Theres in northern Bavaria. He went to school at the Gymnasium in Schweinfurt, and later studied at the State Academy of Arts in Stuttgart. He then worked as a stage designer and stage photographer for the Franconian castle theatre Massbach. After that he spent ten years as an art teacher. Since 1976 he has worked as a freelance writer. He lives in Bamberg with his wife and three children. -
David Klass
David Klass is the author of many young adult novels, including You Don’t Know Me, Dark Angel, and Firestorm (The Caretaker Trilogy). He is also a Hollywood screenwriter, having written more than twenty-five action screenplays, including Kiss the Girls, starring Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd, Walking Tall, starring The Rock, and Desperate Measures, starring Michael Keaton and Andy Garcia. Klass grew up in a family that loved literature and theater—his parents were both college professors and writers—but he was a reluctant reader, preferring sports to books. But he started loving the adventure stories his parents would bring home from the library—particularly Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson and Alexandre Dumas. After his sister twice wo
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Kai Meyer
With millions of books sold worldwide, Kai Meyer is one of Germany's most successful authors. His novels have been translated into 27 languages including English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Chinese.
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Kai Meyer was born in 1969 in northern Germany. He began college at the University of Bochum, Germany, where he studied film, theatre, and philosophy. After a year, he dropped out to work for a newspaper as a trainee journalist, followed by two years as a staff journalist.
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Mike Sager
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Waldemar Bonsels
Waldemar Bonsels was a German writer of children's books.
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Though he wrote only one children's book in the strict sense, Die Biene Maja (Maya the Bee), another work of his, People in the Sky (Himmelsvolk) -- even if not a children's book per se -- has a much deeper mystical layer showing the unity of all creation and its relationship to God. There are a number of novels and shorter stories dealing with love as Eros and on the higher level of divine love in the spirit of romanticism (Eros und die Evangelien, Menschenwege, Narren und Helden, etc.), with the relationship between man and nature in a simple life unchanged by modern civilization (Anjekind, etc.) and also including a historical novel from the time of Jesus (Der Grieche Dositos). He -
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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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 -
Götz Aly
Götz Haydar Aly is a German journalist, historian and social scientist.
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After attending the German School of Journalists, Aly studied history and political science in Berlin. As a journalist, he worked for the taz, the Berliner Zeitung and the FAZ. Presently, from 2004 to 2005, he is a visiting professor for interdisciplinary Holocaust research at the Fritz Bauer Institut in Frankfurt am Main. -
Joachim Ringelnatz
Joachim Ringelnatz (eigentlich Hans Gustav Bötticher) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller, Kabarettist und Maler, der vor allem für humoristische Gedichte um die Kunstfigur Kuttel Daddeldu bekannt ist. Er war bekannt zur Zeit der Weimarer Republik, stand an Popularität den Comedian Harmonists in nichts nach und zählte Schauspieler wie Asta Nielsen und Paul Wegener zu seinen engen Freunden und Weggefährten. Sein teils skurril, expressionistisch, witzig und geistreich geprägtes Werk ist noch heute bekannt.
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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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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 -
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Janosch
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Paul Maar
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He was born on 13 December 1937 in Schweinfurt. After the early death of his mother he lived with his grandfather in the rural area of Theres in northern Bavaria. He went to school at the Gymnasium in Schweinfurt, and later studied at the State Academy of Arts in Stuttgart. He then worked as a stage designer and stage photographer for the Franconian castle theatre Massbach. After that he spent ten years as an art teacher. Since 1976 he has worked as a freelance writer. He lives in Bamberg with his wife and three children. -
Astrid Lindgren
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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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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.
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S.L. Grey
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Tanja Kinkel
Mit acht Jahren begann Tanja Kinkel, Geschichten und Gedichte zu schreiben. 1978 gewann sie einen Jugendliteraturpreis und 1979 schrieb sie ihren ersten Roman.
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Ab 1988 studierte sie Germanistik, Theater- und Kommunikationswissenschaft an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in München. 1991 bekam Tanja Kinkel ein Stipendium an der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen in München; Ausbildung zum Drehbuchautor. 1992 folgte ein Förderpreis des Freistaates Bayern für junge Schriftsteller. 1995 hatte sie einen Förderaufenthalt des deutschen Innenministeriums in der "Casa Baldi" in Olevano Romano bei Rom und erhielt 1996 ein Stipendium in der Villa Aurora in Los Angeles.
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Hans Peter Richter
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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 -
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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Florian Freistetter
Florian Freistetter (* 28. Juli 1977 in Krems an der Donau) ist ein österreichischer Astronom, Blogger, Buchautor und Podcaster.
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Fran Lebowitz
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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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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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Sergei Lukyanenko
Сергей Лукьяненко (Russian)
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Szergej Lukjanyenko (Hungarian)
Sergejs Lukjaņenko (Latvian)
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Sergej Luk'janenko (Italian)
Сергей Лукяненко (Bulgarian)
Sergej Lukianenko (German)
Siergiej Łukjanienko (Polish)
Sergej Lukjaněnko (Czech)
Sergei Lukyanenko (as his name appears on books and films in U.S. markets) is a science-fiction and fantasy author, writing in Russian, and is arguably the most popular contemporary Russian sci-fi writer. His works often feature intense action-packed plots, interwoven with the moral dilemma of keeping one's humanity while being strong.
Lukyanenko is a prolific writer, releasing usually 1-2 books per year, as well as a number of a critical articles and short stories. Recently his works have been adapted into -
Angela Sommer-Bodenburg
Angela Sommer-Bodenburg is the author of a number of fantasy books for children. Her most famous contribution to the field of children's fantasy is "The Little Vampire" series which has sold over 10 million copies and has been translated into over 30 languages. Sommer-Bodenburg states that her "vampire is not a bloodthirsty monster, however, but an affectionate little vampire with fears and foibles who will perhaps help free children of their own fears." The novel, written in 1979, spawned a series of books, and the plot has been adapted to theatre, radio, cinema, and television. A Canadian-German TV series was released in 1986 and a film version, directed by Uli Edel was released in 2000.
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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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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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Kęstutis Kasparavičius
Kestutis Kasparavicius is a widely recognized author and illustrator of over 50 children’s books published all around the world. Ever since 1984, Kestutis’ books were translated into 22 different languages such as Chinese, Spanish, German, Portuguese, French, Italian, Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, Korean, and many more.
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Kestutis is famous for his short feel-good stories about various comic characters. Bears, pigs, rabbits, and turtles find themselves trapped in puzzling and though-provoking situations. -
Annette Langen
Annette Langen is a German author of children’s and young adult literature, best known for her picture book series about Felix, a traveling stuffed rabbit.
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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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Irina Korschunow
Irina Korschunow was a German author of both children's book and adult literature. The daughter of a Russian father and a German mother, she became an outsider under the National Socialist regime. After World War II, she studied German, English and Theatre in Göttingen and Munich.
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She won a number of awards both for her children's and young adult books as well as for the work aimed at an adult audience, which became less and less autobiographical over the course of her career. -
Donald Bisset
Donald Harold G. Bisset (a.k.a. Donald Bissett)
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Klaus Theweleit
Klaus Theweleit is a German sociologist and writer.
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Theweleit studied German studies and English studies in Kiel and Freiburg. From 1969-1972, he worked as a freelancer for a public radio station (Südwestfunk).
His book Männerphantasien (1977); translated as Male Fantasies (1987), a study of the fascist consciousness in general and the bodily experience of these former soldiers in particular, easily detected in their hatefilled, near-illiterate books, was well received and much discussed.
Theweleit writes in a non orthodox, highly personal and associative style. His book are heavily illustrated with cartoons, advertisements, engravings, posters and artwork.
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Tommy Jaud
Tommy Jaud wurde im Juli 1970 im fränkischen Mekka der Automobil-Zulieferindustrie Schweinfurt geboren.
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Nach dem Abitur war Tommy Jaud Zivi im Kindergarten, wo er erfolglos als Hausmeister und Koch tätig war. Seitdem meidet Jaud Kindergärten.
Nach dem überstürzten Abbruch seines Germanistik-Studiums in der Bierstadt Bamberg zog Jaud nach Köln. Dort war er Ende der 90er u.a. Headwriter der Sat.1-›Wochenshow‹ und Anfang des neuen Jahrtausends Creative Producer von Anke Engelkes Kultsendung ›Ladykracher‹.
2004 schließlich schrieb Jaud seinen ersten Roman ›Vollidiot‹. Zwei Jahre später erschien der nächste »Hammer von Gegenwartsroman« (DER SPIEGEL): ›Resturlaub. Das Zweitbuch‹, Es folgten das Drittbuch ›Millionär‹, und der Zweiteiler ›Zwei Weihna -
R.L. Ferguson
In real life, R.L. Ferguson makes a living as a cook. She is the single parent of two lovely pre-teen daughters, and is the human staff for two cats, a horse, and a newly acquired Australian shepherd puppy. She has been writing short stories and journaling since the age of 9, but has recently returned to writing after a 5-year hiatus. Her preferred genre is m/m erotic romance. She lives a ‘selectively secluded’ life, on a farm in northeast Missouri. She firmly believes the famous Eleanor Roosevelt quote: “Well behaved women rarely make history.”
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Wolfgang Koeppen
Wolfgang Arthur Reinhold Koeppen (June 23, 1906 – March 15, 1996) was a German novelist and one of the best known German authors of the post-war period.
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Koeppen was born out of wedlock in Greifswald, Pomerania to Marie Köppen, a seamstress who also worked as a prompter at the Greifswald theater. He did not have contact with his father, ophthalmologist Reinhold Halben, who never formally accepted the fatherhood. In 1920, Koeppen left Greifswald permanently, and after 20 years of moving about, settled in Munich, living there the remainder of his life.
He started out as a journalist. In 1934 his first novel appeared while he was in the Netherlands. In 1947, Koeppen received a book contract to rewrite the memoirs of the philatelist and Holocaus -
Lena Hach
Lena Hach ist eine deutsche Schriftstellerin. Nach dem Abitur besuchte sie erst eine Schule für Clowns und studierte dann Germanistik, Anglistik und Kreatives Schreiben in Frankfurt am Main und Berlin. Nebenbei begann sie, als Autorin und Journalistin zu arbeiten und schrieb unter anderem für zitty und Der Tagesspiegel.
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Lydia Koidula
Lydia Emilie Florentine Jannsen, known by her pen name Lydia Koidula, was an Estonian poet. Her sobriquet means 'Lydia of the Dawn' in Estonian. It was given to her by the writer Carl Robert Jakobson.
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Lydia Jannsen was born in Vändra, Pärnu County, Governorate of Livonia (now in central Estonia). The family moved to the nearby county town of Pärnu in 1850 where, in 1857, her father started the first local Estonian language newspaper and where Lydia attended the German grammar school. The Jannsens moved to the university town of Tartu, the most progressive town in Estonia, in 1864. Nationalism, including publication in indigenous languages, was a very touchy subject in the Russian Empire but the rule of Czar Alexander II (1855 - 1881) was rel -
Kristiina Kass
Kristiina Kass-Nokelainen on eesti lastekirjanik, illustraator ja tõlkija. Ta elab Soomes ja on kirjutanud ka soome keeles.
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Aastal 1988 lõpetas ta Tallinna Kunstigümnaasiumi kunstiklassi ja 1999 Helsingi ülikooli. Samal aastal avaldas ajaleht Hyvinkään Sanomat (hiljem Aamuposti) ta esimesed lastelood. Koostöö ajalehega kestis 9 aastat iganädalaste lastelugude ja noorteföljetonide näol.
Enamiku oma raamatutest on Kristiina Kass illustreerinud ise. Viimase, "Nõianeiu Nöbinina", illustreeris Heiki Ernits. 2011. aastal esilinastus ETV-s "Nõianeiu Nöbinina" järgi tehtud teleseriaal.
Kristiina Kass on tõlkinud soome keelest populaarsete Soome lastekirjanike, Sinikka ja Tiina Nopola, kirjutatud raamatusarja "Risto Räppar". -
Tyrolin Puxty
I'm a Jack, or more accurately, a Tyrolin of all trades.
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Broken Dolls, the first in the trilogy, is an award-winning, international #1 bestseller and appeared on Buzzfeed's Top 24 Best SciFi/Fantasy Books of 2015.
I have been in the Top 25 of the Australian Songwriters Association and Top 5 of the Australian Independent Music Awards, was awarded an Australia Day Award for Music in 2014 and for Arts in 2015. I own a performing arts school, teach creative writing and host a podcast called HooPod, which is part of Felicia Day's community.
I love cats. I love every kind of cat. I just want to hug all of them, but I can't hug every cat. -
Andreas H. Schmachtl
Andreas H. Schmachtl wurde 1971 geboren und studierte Kunst, Germanistik und Anglistik. Seit 2007 erzählt und illustriert er mit viel Liebe zum Detail und zu seinen Figuren zauberhafte und abenteuerliche Geschichten von Mäusen, Kaninchen, Igeln und anderen kleinen Wesen, deren Schutz und Erhalt ihm besonders am Herzen liegen. Seine Bücher erscheinen exklusiv im Arena Verlag.
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Marc de Bel
Marc de Bel is een Vlaamse schrijver van kinderboeken.
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Sibylle Lewitscharoff
Sibylle Lewitscharoff is a German author. Among her novels are Pong (1998), Apostoloff (2009) and Blumenberg (2011). She has received several German literary awards, including the Georg Büchner Prize in 2013.
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Peter Blickle
Peter Blickle teaches modern history at he University of Bern where he specialises in the Reformation and communities in the early modern period.
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Christoph Marzi
Christoph Marzi (geboren 1970 in Mayen und aufgewachsen in Obermendig) lebt heute mit seiner Familie im Saarland und denkt sich dort und woanders Geschichten aus, während der Garten, der das Haus umgibt, immer wilder und seltsamer wird.
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Seine Romane erscheinen bei Heyne und Arena, die vielen Kurzgeschichten fühlen sich in diversen Anthologien wohl.
Der Roman LYCIDAS wurde 2005 mit dem Deutschen Phantastik Preis in der Kategorie „Bestes Roman-Debüt Deutschsprachig“ ausgezeichnet, die Kurzgeschichten-sammlung NIMMERMEHR erhielt den Deutschen Phantastik Preis 2009 in der Kategorie „Beste Kurzgeschichtensammlung“.
Einige seiner Bücher wurden ins Englische, Holländische, Spanische, Italienische, Rumänische, Tschechische, Serbische, Norwegische u -
Stefan Aust
Stefan Aust (born 1 July 1946 in Stade, Lower Saxony) is a German journalist and was the editor-in-chief of the weekly news magazine Der Spiegel from 1994 to February 2008.
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Anna Elizabeth Bennett
Anna Elizabeth Bennett worked at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum and the Brooklyn Public Library in the 1940s and 50s.
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Later she was a children’s librarian in Massachusetts. Her best-selling children’s book Little Witch remained in print for more than forty years and inspired hundreds of children to write to the author, telling her how much they enjoyed the story.
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Martin Jurík
Martin Jurík sa narodil v roku 1973 v Bratislave, jednu dekádu prežil v Nemecku, kde v roku 1997 vydal zbierku "surreálnych, čiastočne fantastických poviedok", ale ako vraví, na prvé miesto vždy kládol myšlienku a nie rámec diela. Pracoval aj ako novinár, no redaktorský chlebíček sa mu zdal príliš hektický, a tak sa uchýlil k pokojnejšej práci prekladateľa (predovšetkým z nemčiny), ktorou sa živí dodnes.
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Na domácej pôde sa zviditeľnil až v roku 2011 debutovým polit-trilerom Kým nás smrť nerozdelí, nasledovalo pokračovanie Harlekýn a potom už sa kormidlo stočilo smer fantastika - bláznivá fantasy Škoricovník (Zlatá cesta) so spoluautorom Michalom Ružičkom a v roku 2014 steampunková alternatívna história pod názvom Projekt Zenta.
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Julia von Lucadou
Julia von Lucadou wurde 1982 in Heidelberg geboren und ist promovierte Filmwissenschaftlerin. Sie arbeitete als Regieassistentin, Redakteurin beim Fernsehen und als Simulationspatientin; sie lebt in Biel, New York und Köln. "Die Hochhauspringerin" ist ihr erster Roman.
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Ephraim Kishon
Ephraim Kishon (Hebrew: אפרים קישון) was an Israeli writer, satirist, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director.
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Born into a middle-class Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary, as Ferenc Hoffmann (Hungarian Hoffmann Ferenc), Kishon studied sculpture and painting, and then began publishing humorous essays and writing for the stage.
During World War II the Nazis imprisoned him in several concentration camps. At one camp his chess talent helped him survive as the camp commandant was looking for an opponent. In another camp the Germans lined up the inmates shooting every tenth person, passing him by. He later wrote in his book The Scapegoat, "They made a mistake—they left one satirist alive." He managed to escape while being transported to the Sob -
Mirjam Pressler
German writer Mirjam Pressler is the author of several novels that have won awards in her native Germany and also received high praise from critics after being translated into English. In Malka and Halinka Pressler focuses on young Jewish protagonists who have been forced by fate to endure the Holocaust, while in Shylock's Daughter she returns readers to fifteenth-century Italy as she attempts to answer haunting questions surrounding the motivations of characters in a popular play by William Shakespeare. While receiving notice for her novels, Pressler is most well known for her work revising the diaries of Jewish Holocaust victim Anne Frank, and she is considered an expert on Franks's life and writings. In addition to translating Frank's
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Astrid Fritz
Geboren und aufgewachsen bin ich im nordbadischen Pforzheim, zusammen mit zwei älteren Geschwistern, einem Hund, zwei Meerschweinchen und einer Goldhamsterzucht.
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Nach dem Abitur folgte eine eher unruhige, wenngleich spannende Zeit: Nach einem dreimonatigen Praktikum auf einem Biobauernhof im idyllischen Emmental studierte ich zunächst Tiermedizin, dann Theaterwissenschaft, Literatur und Romanistik in München, Avignon und Freiburg. Danach brachte mich meine erste Arbeitsstelle als Fachzeitschriften-Redakteurin nach Darmstadt, später ging es wieder zurück nach Freiburg, wo ich insgesamt die meisten Jahre verbracht habe.
In diese Zeit Ende der Achtziger fielen auch mehrere Monate der Arbeitslosigkeit, in denen ich mich mit Literaturbesprechungen -
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. -
Paul van Ostaijen
Leopold Andreas 'Paul' van Ostaijen was a Flemish poet and writer who wrote his most important works in the post-World War I era.
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Karina Reiss
Karina Reiss was born in Germany and studied biology at the University of Kiel where she received her PhD in 2001. She became assistant professor in 2006 and associate professor in 2008 at the University of Kiel. She has published over sixty articles in the fields of cell biology, biochemistry, inflammation, and infection, which have gained international recognition and received prestigious honors and awards.
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Bernardas Brazdžionis
Bernardas Brazdžionis – lietuvių prozininkas, poetas, dramaturgas, spaudos darbuotojas, muziejininkas, literatūros kritikas, bei knygelių vaikams autorius.
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Pasirašinėjo įvairiais slapyvardžiais: Vytė Nemunėlis, J. Brazaitis, J. Stebeikis, B. Brn., B. Nardis Brazdžionis, Bern. Žvainius, J. Braz., Jaunasis Vaidevutis, B. Br. Gintvytis, B. Nardis, J. Žadeikis, A. Pagramantis, Mikas Lašavikas, Jonas Baika, M. Kiškutis, V. Klevelis. -
Isla Fisher
Isla Lang Fisher (born February 3, 1976) is an Australian actress and author. She was born in Muscat, Oman, to Scottish parents from Bathgate and Stranraer, and was raised in Perth, Western Australia. They resided in Muscat because of her father's job as a banker for the United Nations. Her mother is a romance novelist. Isla's name, after the Scottish island of Islay, is pronounced eye-la. She began acting on Australian television, on the short-lived soap opera Paradise Beach before playing Shannon Reed on the soap opera Home and Away. She has since been known for her comedic roles in Wedding Crashers (2005), Hot Rod (2007), Definitely, Maybe (2008), and Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009). She is married to comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. Fishe
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Janna Jennings
Janna is a Colorado based YA author who loves a good fairy tale. She’s married to her own real life Prince Charming, and will usually admit to being mom of three, including her incorrigible middle child, Benny. Besides wrangling her kids she can be found doing some therapeutic baking, dreaming of the ocean, and of course, curling up with a good book.
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Aimee Hyndman
Aimee Hyndman has been writing ever since her toddler fingers could grasp a pencil. A lover of all things speculative fiction, she spent many a night penning the beginnings of novels that would never see the light of day. Now attending college in Iowa, double majoring in Creative writing and English, she has clearly never lost her love of the craft.
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When not writing and avoiding her school work, Aimee enjoys reading, singing, and acting at her school’s theater department. She is also a lover of anime and all things Disney.
Her area of specialty is fantasy of all sorts but she dabbles in many genres— whatever she feels compelled to write at the moment. The plot bunnies are never ending but, luckily, so are the words! -
Rudolf Otto
German theologian, philosopher, and historian of religion, who exerted worldwide influence through his investigation of man’s experience of the holy. Das Heilige (1917; The Idea of the Holy, 1923) is his most important work.
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Janina Degutytė
Lithuanian poet, romantic of late lyrics, author of poems for children.
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Alex Rühle
Alex Rühle is a German journalist and author. His best known book is Ohne Netz, about his expericences living without internet or smartphone use for half a year.
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Gustavo Florentin
Gustavo Florentin was born in Queens, New York and received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic University of New York. He spent a decade in the defense industry working on the F-14 fighter jet and classified electronics projects. After the fall of the Soviet Union, many thought America wouldn't need weapons anymore, so while others waited for the peace dividend, he moved on to the financial sector in New York where he is currently a network engineer. His passions include violin, travel to exotic places and exploring worldwide conspiracies. He lives in New Jersey where he is working on his third novel. His thriller, In the Talons of the Condor, won the following awards:
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WUACADEMIA--Prix d'Or Best Novel
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Kim Kestner
- geb. im Mai 1975 in Gifhorn
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- lebt mit ihrer Familie in der Nordheide, nahe Hamburg
- mag lange Dackelnasen, Natto, Super-Last-Minute-Urlaub und das Gurren von Tauben
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Renata Šerelytė
Renata Šerelytė (g. 1970) – prozininkė, poetė, dramaturgė, kritikė, žurnalistė. 1988 m. baigė Šimonių vidurinę mokyklą, metus dirbo mokyklos bibliotekoje. 1994 m. Vilniaus universitete baigė lietuvių kalbos ir literatūros studijas. Dirbo vaikų žurnale „Žvaigždutė“, kultūros savaitraštyje „7 meno dienos“, žurnale „Jaunimo gretos“. Šiuo metu bendradarbiauja „Šiaurės Atėnuose“, internetiniuose dienraščiuose. R. Šerelytė debiutavo 1986 m. žurnale „Moksleivis“. Pirmasis novelių rinkinys – „Žuvies darinėjimas“ (1995). Išleido novelių rinkinius „Balandų ratas“ (1997), „O ji tepasakė miau“ (2001), romanus „Ledynmečio žvaigždės“ (1999), „Vardas tamsoje“ (2004), du nuotykinių istorinių apysakų rinkinius vaikams, eilėraščių rinkinį vaikams, esė rinkin
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