Mirjam Pressler

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Mirjam Pressler


Born
in Darmstadt, Germany
June 18, 1940

Died
January 16, 2019


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 ...more

Average rating: 4.27 · 58,842 ratings · 4,487 reviews · 263 distinct worksSimilar authors
Anne Frank: A Hidden Life

4.28 avg rating — 1,498 ratings — published 1995 — 23 editions
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Malka

3.78 avg rating — 1,141 ratings — published 2001 — 29 editions
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Treasures from the Attic: t...

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Bitterschokolade

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Nathan und seine Kinder

2.84 avg rating — 685 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions
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Halinka

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Shylock's Daughter

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Ein Buch für Hanna

4.03 avg rating — 176 ratings — published 2006 — 11 editions
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Dunkles Gold

3.72 avg rating — 110 ratings3 editions
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Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

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“Fünf Minuten im Garten Eden sind besser als ein ganzes Leben in der Hölle.”
Mirjam Pressler, Wenn das Glück kommt, muss man ihm einen Stuhl hinstellen

“Die Maus braucht den Käse nur zu sehen, schon tappt sie in die Falle.”
Mirjam Pressler, Wenn das Glück kommt, muss man ihm einen Stuhl hinstellen

“Man sollte sich nie etwas Unmögliches wünschen, denn wer von Palästen träumt, verliert seinen Platz in der Hütte.”
Mirjam Pressler, Wenn das Glück kommt, muss man ihm einen Stuhl hinstellen

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