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Cornelia Funke

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Neither Goyl nor men lived long enough to understand that yesterday was born of tomorrow, just as tomorrow was born of yesterday.


— Cornelia Funke


#reckless #men

But i know a lot about the kind of men you mean. They're the same everywhere.


— Cornelia Funke


#men

Wasn't that what all stories said?You felt it, like a pang in your heart, when something was happening to someone you love


— Cornelia Funke


#love #love

I love to read aloud.


— Cornelia Funke


#i #i love #love #read

I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside.


— Cornelia Funke


#hamburg #i #like #live #looks

I like to visit my horse, have a walk with my dog.


— Cornelia Funke


#horse #i #like #visit #walk

I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.


— Cornelia Funke


#composer #henry #i #i love #like

I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.


— Cornelia Funke


#both #brother #called #children #did

I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.


— Cornelia Funke


#dog #guinea #guinea pig #hairy #horses

I don't like to eat the same dish every day, so I read very different things.


— Cornelia Funke


#different #different things #dish #eat #every






About Cornelia Funke






Did you know about Cornelia Funke?

Inkheart was the first part of a trilogy which was continued with Inkspell (2005) which won Funke her second BookSense Book of the Year Children's Literature award (2006). Batchelder Award for Herr der Diebe
2003 Nordstemmer Zuckerrübe for Kleiner Werwolf
2004 Preis der Jury der jungen Leser for Tintenherz (Inkheart)
2004 Phantastik-Preis der Stadt Wetzlar for Tintenherz
2004 Kalbacher Klapperschlange for Tintenherz
2004 Book Sense Children's Literature Award (Children's Literature Honor Books) for Inkheart
2006 Book Sense Book of the Year Children's Literature Winner for Inkspell
2008 Roswitha Prize
Cornelia Funke was voted into the Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of 2005. It was subsequently released as The Thief Lord by Scholastic and made it to the number 2 spot on The New York Times Best Seller list.

She was born on 10 December 1958 in Dorsten North Rhine-Westphalia. Many of her books have now been translated into English.

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