Mirjam pressler wikipedia

  • Mirjam Pressler, born Mirjam Gunkel (18 June – 16 January ) was a German novelist and translator.
  • Mirjam Pressler (18 June – 16 January ) was a German novelist and translator.
  • German writer and translator (–).

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    Mirjam Pressel

    (born in Darmstadt, died in Landshut), writer, translator.

    Mirjam Pressler grew up in a home and with foster parents. She is considered one of the most important German-language authors of children's and young people's books. Her stories are mainly about children living in difficult social circumstances. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Frankfurt and language studies in Munich, she went to Israel for a year. After her return, she worked in various professions before she began writing books and translating from various languages, especially Hebrew. Her first novel for young people, Bitterschokolade, was published in and won the Oldenburg Children's and Young People's Book Prize. She has received many important prizes for her extensive work of translations and novels, including the German Youth Literature Prize twice, the Literature Prize of the City of Munich, the Buber-Rosenzweig Medal and the Grand Cross of the Order of M

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    About the Author

    Mirjam Pressler was born on June 18, in Darmstadt, Germany. She 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 show more 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. She made the finalist for the Hans Christian Andersen Awards in the author category. (Bowker Author Biography)show less

    Includes the names: Mirjam Pressler, Mirjan Pressler, Mirijam Pressler

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    German writer and translator (–)

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    Darmstadt (Germany)Date of death16 January
    LandshutCountry of citizenshipEducated atOccupationMember ofField of workWork locationAward received
    • Bavarian Order of Merit ()
    • Officer's Cross of the beställning of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany ()
    • Buber-Rosenzweig-Medal ()
    • Großer Preis der Deutschen Akademie für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur e.V. Volkach ()
    • Literaturpreis der Stadt München ()
    • Pro meritis scientiae et litterarum ()
    • Friedrich-Bödecker-Preis ()
    • Carl Zuckmayer Medal ()
    • Commander's Cross of the beställning of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany ()
    • Leipzig Book Fair Prize/Translation ()
    • Lektorix ()
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