Michael Ende

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Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende (November 12, 1929 - August 29, 1995) was a German writer of fantasy novels and children's books. He was born in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Bavaria, Germany), son of the surrealist painter Edgar Ende. He died in Stuttgart (Germany) of stomach cancer. He is best known for his work Die unendliche Geschichte (The Neverending Story), and his other books include Momo and Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer.

He is one of the most popular and most famous German authors of the 20th century, mostly due to the enormous success of his children's books, which invite the reader into strange worlds full of visionary symbolic power and enable them to identify with the heroes of the story. He was also known as a proponent of economic reform, and claimed to have had the concept of aging money in mind when writing Momo. He was interested in and influenced by anthroposophy.^{[citation needed]}

Michael Ende's works have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 20 million copies.

[edit] Selected works

Michael Ende's works include: (Note – original titles are listed in German, followed by the English translation of the title in captions. Any translations of an entire work into English are listed.)

Der Spielverderber (1967) (The Spoilsport)
Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer (1960) ((Translated into English by Anthea Bell as Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver)
- Overlook Press, 1990, ISBN 0-87951-391-8
Jim Knopf und die Wilde Dreizehn (1962) (Jim Button and the Wild 13)
Tranquilla Trampeltreu die beharrliche Schildkröte (1972)
Momo (1973)(Translated into English by Francis Lobb as The Grey Gentlemen, and by J. Maxwell Brownjohn as Momo.)
- Viking Penguin Press, 1986, ISBN 0-14-009464-4
Das Traumfresserchen (1978) (The Dream Eater)
Die unendliche Geschichte (1979)(Translated into English by Ralph Manheim as The Neverending Story)
- Amereon Ltd., 1979, ISBN 0-8488-1306-5
- Buccaneer Books, 1991, ISBN 0-89966-807-0
- Puffin Books, 1993, ISBN 0-14-038633-5
- NAL/Dutton, 1997, ISBN 0-525-45758-5
Der Lindwurm und der Schmetterling oder Der seltsame Tausch (1981)
Das Gauklermärchen(1982)(The Juggler's Tale)
Der Goggolori (1984)
Die Vollmondlegende (1989) (The Legend of the Full Moon)
Der Spiegel im Spiegel (1986)(Translated into English by J. Maxwell Brownjohn as Mirror in the Mirror)
Ophelias Schattentheater (1988) (Translated into English by Anthea Bell as Ophelia's Shadow Theater)
- Overlook Press, 1989, ISBN 0-87951-371-3
Der satanarchäolügenialkohöllische Wunschpunsch (1989) (Translated into English by Heike Schwarzbauer and Rick Takvorian as The Night of Wishes: or, The Satanarchaeolidealcohellish Notion Potion)
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992, ISBN 0-374-19594-3
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995, ISBN 0-374-45503-1
Der lange Weg nach Santa Cruz (1992) (The Long Road to Santa Cruz)
Das Gefängnis der Freiheit (1992)
- Weitbrecht Verlag, 1992, ISBN 3522708504
Der Rattenfänger (1993)
Phantasie/Kultur/Politik: Protokolleines Gesparächs (1982)(Fantasy/Cuture/Politics: The Protocol of a Conversation)
Archäologie der Dunkelheit (1985) (Archeology of Darkness)
Trödelmarkt der Träume (1986)(Rag-fair of Dreams)