Tove Jansson was born and died in Helsinki, Finland. As a Finnish citizen whose mother tongue was Swedish, she was part of the Swedish-speaking Finns minority. Thus, all her books were originally writ…
Vilhelm Moberg was a Swedish journalist, author, playwright, historian, and debater best known for his Emigrant series of novels about Swedish emigrants to America. He also wrote other novels and play…
Otfried Preußler (sometimes spelled as Otfried Preussler) was a German children's books author. His best-known works are The Robber Hotzenplotz and The Satanic Mill (Krabat).
Åsa Larsson is a Swedish crime-writer. Although born in Uppsala, she was raised in Kiruna in the far north. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Larsson was a tax lawyer, a profession she shares with…
Paul Biegel was born in Bussum in 1925. His father, Hermann Biegel, was of German descent, and owned a building materials shop. With his wife Madeleine Povel-Guillot he had nine children, six girls an…
Hans-Peter Wilhelm “Hape” Kerkeling is a German comedian, author, television presenter, actor, director, singer, radio play narrator, audiobook and dubbing actor.
Eveline Hasler wurde in Glarus geboren, studierte Psychologie und Geschichte in Fribourg und Paris und war einige Zeit als Lehrerin tätig. Heute lebt sie im Tessin. Sie schreibt vor allem historische …
Sara Stridsberg is a Swedish author and translator. Her first fiction novel, Happy Sally, was about Sally Bauer, the first Scandinavian to swim the English Channel.
Katarina Wennstam är en av Sveriges mest lästa författare med en bakgrund som kriminaljournalist i SVT. Som frontfigur i den svenska debatten om kvinnors rättigheter och lika villkor har Wennstam v…
Der Autor Ewald Arenz kam 1965 in Nürnberg zur Welt und studierte englische und amerikanische Literatur und Geschichte. Seit Beginn der 1990er Jahre ist er als Autor tätig und hat neben einigen Glosse…
Jussi Adler-Olsen is a Danish author who began to write novels in the 1990s after a comprehensive career as publisher, editor, film composer for the Valhalla cartoon and as a bookseller.
Marc-Uwe Kling wurde geboren. Er studierte an der Großen Akademie von Lagado, wie man ein Haus vom Dach her nach unten baut. Er hat über seinen Mitbewohner, ein kommunistisches Känguru, drei kapitalis…
Ulli Lust was born in 1967 in Vienna, Austria. Her cartooning work has mainly comprised comics reportages; Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life is her first graphic novel, and her first work…
Janneke Schotveld (1974) werkte twaalf jaar op een school voor speciaal onderwijs maar is sinds 2012 fulltime kinderboekenschrijver. In 2007 debuteerde Janneke met Villa Fien, dat bekroond werd met de…
Kristine Bilkau, born in 1974, studied History and Literature at Hamburg University and Tulane University, New Orleans. Her debut novel „Die Glücklichen" (The Happy Ones) about an urban family getting…
Caroline Wahl (born 1995 in Mainz) is a German author. Her debut novel, 22 Bahnen, was published in April 2023 by DuMont Buchverlag. After her school days, she studied German studies and German litera…
