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Christine Nöstlinger

Author profile

born

October 13, 1936 in Vienna, Austria

gender

female

website

http://www.christine-noestlinger.de/

genre

Children's Books, Young Adult, Humor

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Christine Nöstlinger is an Austrian writer.

By her own admission, Nöstlinger 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, discri...more

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Books by Christine Nöstlinger

Average rating: 3.60 · 1,292 ratings · 75 reviews · 182 distinct works

	Conrad: The Factory-Made Boy 3.71 avg rating — 177 ratings — published 1975 — 20 editions	My rating:
	The Cucumber King by Christine Nöstlinger, Anthea Bell (Translator) 3.74 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1972 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Gretchen Sackmeier: Eine Familiengeschichte 3.80 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1981 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Querida Susi, querido Paul 3.85 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1984 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Diario secreto de Susi, Diario secreto de Paul 3.38 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Maikäfer, flieg! 3.60 avg rating — 42 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Gretchen mein Mädchen 3.79 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1988	My rating:
	Die Ilse ist weg 3.15 avg rating — 67 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Suami untuk Mama 3.26 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1972 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Gretchen hat Hänschen-Kummer 3.83 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1983	My rating: