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Cornelia Funke

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And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.


— Cornelia Funke


#always #approve #conversations #english #example

Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.


— Cornelia Funke


#books #every #i #i think #inspired

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.


— Cornelia Funke


#books #children #earth #go #i

There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.


— Cornelia Funke


#many #mythical

They are shooting The Thief Lord in Venice at the moment.


— Cornelia Funke


#moment #shooting #thief #venice

Yes, I always imagined living in other places.


— Cornelia Funke


#i #i always #imagined #living #other

My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.


— Cornelia Funke


#grandmother #she #stories #told #very

My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.


— Cornelia Funke


#anna #ben #daughter #son

I wish I had more time to visit schools.


— Cornelia Funke


#i #i wish #more #schools #time

I will try to write books until I drop dead.


— Cornelia Funke


#dead #drop #i #try #until






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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