Christine Nöstlinger

Christine Nöstlinger
Christine Nöstlinger in 2012
Born
Christine Draxler

(1936-10-13)13 October 1936
Vienna, Austria
Died28 June 2018(2018-06-28) (aged 81)
Resting place
Hernalser Friedhof, Vienna
OccupationChildren's writer
Writing career
LanguageGerman, Viennese German
GenresChildren's literature

Christine Nöstlinger (13 October 1936 – 28 June 2018) was an Austrian writer best known for children's books. She received one of two inaugural Astrid Lindgren Memorial Awards from the Swedish Arts Council in 2003, the biggest prize in children's literature, for her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense." She received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for "lasting contribution to children's literature" in 1984 and was 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.

The majority of Nöstlinger's production is literature for children, and she also wrote for television, radio and newspapers. She centered on the needs of children in her work, with an anti-authoritarian bent. She is known for controversial topics discussing race, gender, sexuality and nationality.

Her first book was Die feuerrote Friederike, published in 1970, which she illustrated herself. The book was published in English in 1975.

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

In 2021, an award in her name, Christine-Nöstlinger-Preis, was jointly established by the city of Vienna and the Union of Austrian book publishers.

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.

Selected works

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Christine Nöstlinger, Clear-Eyed Children's Book Author, Dies at 81". NY Times. 2018-07-24.
  2. ↑ "Astrid Lingren Memorial Award".
  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. 1 2 "Christine Nostlinger, children's advocate and social critic".
  5. ↑ "Nöstlinger, Christine". WorldCat. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
  6. ↑ "Verleihung des Christine-Nöstlinger-Preises 2024 an Heinz Janisch". Press release of the city of Vienna. 26 April 2024.
  7. ↑ "Hans Christian Andersen Awards". International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY). Retrieved 2013-08-01.
  8. ↑ "2003: Christine Nöstlinger: A Reliably Bad Child-rearer" Archived 2012-10-19 at the Wayback Machine. The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Retrieved 2012-08-13.
  9. ↑ "Reply to a parliamentary question" (PDF) (in German). p. 1556. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  10. ↑ "Reply to a parliamentary question" (PDF) (in German). p. 2004. Retrieved 18 January 2013.