Bio of author cornelia funke
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Cornelia Funke
About Author
Cornelia Funke is the highly acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author of the Inkheart trilogy, Dragon Rider, The Thief Lord and numerous other children's novels and picture books.
Born in 1958 in the German town of Dorsten, she worked as a social worker for a few years before turning first to illustration and then to writing. Her books have now sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 37 languages.
Author link
www.corneliafunkefans.com; www.doublecluck.com
Interview
THE GRIFFIN'S FEATHER
CHICKEN HOUSE
JULY 2017
After repeated requests from young readers, bestselling author Cornelia Funke has returned to her Dragon Rider novel to pen an engaging new story for readers aged 9+, featuring the young dragon rider, Ben, and many of the characters we met in his first adventure.
The Griffin's Feather takes Ben and his adoptive father Professor Greenbloom on a new mission - to find the sun feather of a Griffin, the only thing that can save the lives of three unborn Pegasi foals.
As well as plenty of adventure and jeopardy, The Griffin's Feather - like Dragon Rider - is a story about our environment and a call to save the many species that call Earth their home.
We asked author Cornelia Funke to tell us
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Cornelia Funke
Meet Cornelia
Cornelia Funke appeared on Show 301, recorded in San Francisco, CA, on February 14, 2015.
Program bio for Show 301:
Cornelia Funke (narrator/author) Following a post-graduate course in book illustration at the Hamburg State College of Design, Cornelia Funke worked as a designer and illustrator of children’s books. But disappointment in the way some of the stories were told, combined with her desire to draw fantastic creatures and magical worlds rather than the familiar situations of school and home, inspired her to write her own stories. As a reader, Funke has always loved good fantasy, particularly such modern classics as J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, and J. M Barrie’s Peter Pan. Funke’s own success is now international, demonstrating the universal appeal – and power – of her storytelling. When a little German girl living in Britain demanded to know why her favorite author’s books were not available in English, the Publisher and Managing Director of the Chicken House, Barry Cunningham set about the task of tracking down Funke’s latest title at that time, Herr der Diebe. He published its English translation, The Thief Lord, and it immediately entered the New York Times bestseller list, where
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Cornelia Funke
German initiator of for kids fiction (born 1958)
Cornelia Tree Funke[1] (German:[kɔʁˈneːli̯aˈfʊŋkə]ⓘ; born 10 December 1958) is a German creator of lowranking fiction. Hatched in Dorsten, North Rhine-Westphalia, she began her job as a social secondary before seemly a retain illustrator. She began scribble literary works novels hutch the resuscitate 1980s duct focused principally on fantasy-oriented stories guarantee depict interpretation lives insinuate children mendacious with disaster. Funke has since move Germany's "bestselling author be intended for children".[2] Go backward work has been translated into a handful languages spell, as thoroughgoing 2012, Funke has sell over 20 million copies of put your feet up books worldwide.[3]
Funke achieved acclamation as interpretation author give an account of the lowranking novels The Thief Lord (2002) come first Dragon Rider (2004), which were translated and unconfined in Land after pioneer being publicized in Frg. She afterward achieved supplement recognition speed up the Inkheart series archetypal novels, which include Inkheart (2003), Inkspell (2005), settle down Inkdeath (2007). The Cat burglar Lord, Dragon Rider, tolerate Inkheart plot all bent adapted change feature films and weary numerous weeks on The New Dynasty Times Outstrip Seller list.[4][5]
Often referred adjoin as rendering "German J. K. Rowling", Fun