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Christine Nöstlinger

1936 - 2018

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

country of citizenship:  Austria
native language:  German
languages spoken, written or signed:  German
occupation:  writer, children's writer, playwright, illustrator, journalist, screenwriter
award received:  Grand Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria, Hans Christian Andersen Award, Buchpreis der Wiener Wirtschaft, Friedrich-Bödecker-Preis, Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, Österreichischer Kinder- und Jugendbuchpreis, Mildred L. Batchelder Award, Zilveren Griffel, Johann-Nestroy-Ring, Kinder- und Jugendbuchpreis der Stadt Wien, La vache qui lit, Steirische Leseeule, Ehrenpreis des österreichischen Buchhandels für Toleranz in Denken und Handeln, Wildweibchenpreis, Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, Austrian Decoration for Science and Art, Willy and Helga Verkauf-Verlon Preis, Corine Literature Prize, Bruno-Kreisky Award for a political book, Zehn besondere Bücher zum Andersentag, Käthe Leichter Prize, Austrian Art Prize for Children's and Youth Literature
official website:  www.christine-noestlinger.de

Christine Nöstlinger (13 October 1936 – 28 June 2018) was an Austrian writer best known for children's books. She received one of two inaugural Astrid Lindgren Memorial Awards from the Swedish Arts Council in 2003, the biggest prize in children's literature, for her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense." She received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for "lasting contribution to children's literature" in 1984 and was one of three people through 2012 to win both of these major international awards. Source: Wikipedia (en)

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