Cornelia Funke by Cruccone, 2008. Retrieved from Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY 3.0 (accessed: December 16, 2021).
Cornelia Funke
, b. 1958
Cornelia Funke, born in Dorsten, North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany), is the most successful contemporary German author of children’s and Young Adult literature, best known for her Inkworld trilogy. Her books have been translated into 37 languages and a number of her novels have been adapted for theatre productions and made into films or movies. Cornelia Funke has received numerous prizes for her work, in particular she was named the worldwide most influential German by Times magazine in 2005.
Before writing her own books, Cornelia Funke worked as a youth social worker and illustrator of children’s books. She lived most of her grown-up life in Hamburg and moved to California in 2005. She writes her books in German. Since 2012, she has been one of the German ambassadors to the UN Decade on Biodiversity.
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Official website (accessed: July 3, 2018).
Heber, Saskia, Das Buch im Buch. Selbstreferenz, Intertextualität und Mythenadaption in Cornelia Funkes Tinten-Trilogie, Kiel: Ludwig Verlag, 2010.
Latsch, Hildegunde, Cornelia Funke – Spionin der Kinder, Hamburg: Dressler Verlag, 2008.
Vogt, Christine, ed., Cornelia Funke – Tintenherz, Wilde Hühner und Gespensterjäger. Die fantastischen Bildwelten von den frühen Kinderbüchern bis Reckless, Bielefeld/Berlin: Kerber Verlag, 2013.
Bio prepared by Babette Pütz, Victoria University of Wellington, babette.puetz@vuw.ac.nz
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