Christine Nöstlinger

Christine Nöstlinger

Christine Nöstlinger (born 13 October 1936) is an Austrian writer best known for children's books. For her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense", she received one of two inaugural Astrid Lindgren Memorial Awards from the Swedish Arts Council in 2003, the biggest prize in children's literature.[1] She received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for "lasting contribution to children's literature" in 1984[2][3] and is one of three people through 2012 to win both of these major international awards.

Life and career

Nöstlinger was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1936. By her own admission, she 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.

WorldCat reports that her work most widely held in participating libraries is Fly away home (Maikäfer flieg, 1973).[4]

Awards and recognition

The biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award conferred by the International Board on Books for Young People is the highest recognition available to a writer or illustrator of children's books. Nöstlinger received the writing award in 1984.[2][3]

Selected works

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "2003: Christine Nöstlinger: A Reliably Bad Child-rearer". The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Retrieved 2012-08-13.
  2. 1 2 "Hans Christian Andersen Awards". International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY). Retrieved 2013-08-01.
  3. 1 2 "Christine Nöstlinger" (pp. 70–71, by Eva Glistrup).
    The Hans Christian Andersen Awards, 1956–2002. IBBY. Gyldendal. 2002. Hosted by Austrian Literature Online. Retrieved 2013-08-01.
  4. ↑ "Nöstlinger, Christine". WorldCat. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
  5. ↑ "Reply to a parliamentary question" (pdf) (in German). p. 1556. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  6. ↑ "Reply to a parliamentary question" (pdf) (in German). p. 2004. Retrieved 18 January 2013.

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