
Sebald's … More novel Austerlitz, and the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize in 2009 for How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 09:01:41 Boxid IA40140824 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier She has been the recipient of a number of translation prizes and awards including the 1987 Schlegel-Tieck Award for Hans Berman's The Stone and the Flute, the Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation for Christine N�stlinger's A Dog's Life, the 2002 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for her translation of W.G. Her translations include works of non-fiction, literary and popular fiction, and books for young people including classic German works by the Brothers Grimm, Clemens Brentano, Wilhelm Hauff and Christian Morgenstern. LessĪnthea Bell was born in Suffolk, was educated at Somerville College, Oxford, and works as a translator, primarily from German and French. Cornelia Funke was voted into the Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of 2005. Funke has written numerous books including Dragon Rider, When Santa Fell to Earth, Igraine The Brave, Reckless, Saving Mississippi, Inkheart, Inkspell, Inkdeath, Igraine the Brave, and The Princess Knight. She has also received the Book Sense Children's Literature Award … More for Inkheart and Inkspell. Batchelder Award for the best translated children's book of the year and the Book Sense Book of the Year Award. Her book, The Thief Lord, won the Mildred L.

Her desire to draw magical worlds and her disappointment over the way some stories were written inspired her to write her own children's books. After completing a course in book illustration at the Hamburg State College of Design, she worked as a children's book illustrator and designed board games. After graduating from the University of Hamburg, she worked as a social worker for three years.


Author Cornelia Maria Funke was born in Dorsten, Germany on December 10, 1958.
