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Christine Nöstlinger (born 13 October 1936 in Vienna) is an Austrian writer.
By her own admission, Nöstlinger was a wild and angry child. After finishing high school, she wanted to become an artist, and studied graphic arts at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna. She worked as a graphic artist for a few years, before marrying a journalist, Ernst Nöstlinger, with whom she had two daughters. Today she alternates between her home in Vienna and a country house in Lower Austria.
The majority of Nöstlinger's production is literature for children and for young people, and she also writes for television, radio and newspapers. She centres on the needs of children in her work, with an anti-authoritarian bent. She does not shy away from tackling difficult subjects like racism, discrimination and self-isolation.
Her first book was Die feuerrote Friederike, published in 1970, which she illustrated herself. The book was published in English in 1975 as Fiery Frederica.
Awards and recognition
- Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German Youth Literature Prize) 1973, 1988
- Friedrich Bödecker Prize 1972
- Kinder- und Jugendbuchpreis der Stadt Wien (Viennese Youth Literature Prize) (five-time winner)
- Österreichischer Staatspreis für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur (Austrian Youth Literature Prize) 1974, 1979
- Hans Christian Andersen Award 1984
- Tolereis des österreichischen Buchhandels für Toleranz in Denken und Handeln 1998
- Zürcher Kinderbuchpreis "La vache qui lit" (Zurich Youth Literature Prize) 1990
- Erster Preis der Stiftung Buchkunst 1993
- The inaugural Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation for Der Hund kommt! (English: A Dog's Life, translated by Anthea Bell) 1996
- Wildweibchenpreis 2002
- Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2003
Bibliography (selection)
- Die feuerrote Friederike, 1970 (Fiery Frederica, 1975)
- Ein Mann für Mama, 1972
- Wir pfeifen auf den Gurkenkönig, 1972 (The Cucumber King, 1975)
- Maikäfer flieg, 1973 (Fly away Home 1975)
- Achtung! Vranek sieht ganz harmlos aus, 1974
- Konrad oder Das Kind aus der Konservenbüchse, 1975 (Conrad: The Factory-Made Boy, 1976)
- Die unteren 7 Achtel des Eisbergs, 1978
- Rosa Riedl Schutzgespenst, 1979
- Dschi-Dsche-i-Dschunior, 1980
- Das Austauschkind, 1982
- Am Montag ist alles ganz anders, 1984
- Haushaltsschnecken leben länger, 1985
- Der geheime Großvater, 1986
- Man nennt mich Ameisenbär, 1986
- Die nie geschriebenen Briefe der Emma K., 75, 1988
- Der Zwerg im Kopf, 1989
- Einen Löffel für den Papa, 1989
- Ilse Janda, 14 oder Die Ilse ist weg, 1994
- Der gefrorene Prinz, 1997
External links
Hans Christian Andersen Award by IBBY Authors: Eleanor Farjeon (1956) • Astrid Lindgren (1958) • Erich Kästner (1960) • Meindert DeJong (1962) • René Guillot (1964) • Tove Jansson (1966) • James Krüss and José Maria Sanchez-Silva (1968) • Gianni Rodari (1970) • Scott O'Dell (1972) • Maria Gripe (1974) • Cecil Bødker (1976) • Paula Fox (1978) • Bohumil Říha (1980) • Lygia Bojunga Nunes (1982) • Christine Nöstlinger (1984) • Patricia Wrightson (1986) • Annie M. G. Schmidt (1988) • Tormod Haugen (1990) • Virginia Hamilton (1992) • Michio Mado (1994) • Uri Orlev (1996) • Katherine Paterson (1998) • Ana Maria Machado (2000) • Aidan Chambers (2002) • Martin Waddell (2004) • Margaret Mahy (2006) • Jürg Schubiger (2008) • David Almond (2010)Illustrators: Alois Carigiet (1966) • Jiří Trnka (1968) • Maurice Sendak (1970) • Ib Spang Olsen (1972) • Farshid Mesghali (1974) • Tatyana Mavrina (1976) • Svend Otto S. (1978) • Suekichi Akaba (1980) • Zbigniew Rychlicki (1982) • Mitsumasa Anno (1984) • Robert Ingpen (1986) • Dusan Kállay (1988) • Lisbeth Zwerger (1990) • Kveta Pacovská (1992) • Jörg Müller (1994) • Klaus Ensikat (1996) • Tomi Ungerer (1998) • Anthony Browne (2000) • Quentin Blake (2002) • Max Velthuijs (2004) • Wolf Erlbruch (2006) • Roberto Innocenti (2008) • Jutta Bauer (2010)Categories:- 1936 births
- Living people
- Austrian children's writers
- Austrian writers
- German-language writers
- Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing winners
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