Cornelia Funke - Ashley Ann Preim

Cornelia Funke
By: Ashley Preim
Biography
• Born 1958, Dorsten
• University of Hamberg
• Book Illustration at Hamberg State College of Design
• 3 years, Social Worker
• Designed board games, illustrated books
Biography Cont.
• Rolfe Funke, 1981
• Anna (1989) and Ben (1994)
• Hamburg, Germany
• 2005, Los Angeles
• Husband died March 2006
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1998 Kalbacher Klapperschlange for Drachenreiter (Dragon Rider)
2000 Wildweibchenpreis for her collected works
2000 La vache qui lit for Herr der Diebe (The Thief Lord)
2001 Kalbacher Klapperschlange for Herr der Diebe
2001 Preis der Jury der jungen Leser for Herr der Diebe
2002 Evangelischer Buchpreis for Herr der Diebe
2003 Corine for Herr der Diebe
2003 Mildred L. 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
Quotes
"If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken
home by all different sorts of kids. A library book, I imagine, is a
happy book.”
“The best story is for me the one that children steal from their
parents’ desk or grandparents from their grandchildren’s.”
"There are those people who love books and are greedy for books
and the rustling of paper and the printed letter and I wanted to write
about this. This lust for the printed word. And I think Inkheart is all
about that. The enchantment that comes from books."
Story Telling!
• J. R. R. Tolkien
• C. S. Lewis
• J. M. Barrie