Gudrun Pausewang
Gudrun Pausewang (3 March 1928 – 23 January 2020[1]) was a German writer for children and teens.
She was also known in science fiction for Young-Adult novels such as The Last Children of Schewenborn.[2] She was born in Mladkov, Czech Republic and was a teacher and emptied at German Schools in Chile and Venezuela, but above all at the German School of Barranquilla in Colombia; and traveled to North, Central and South America, including the Amazon Basin, Tierra del Fuego, Peru, Bolivia and Mexico. She died at the age of 91 near Bamberg in Germany.
In 1988, her novel Die Wolke (The Cloud) won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis ("German Youth Literature Prize"), the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis ("Kurd Lasswitz Prize"), and the Deutscher Science Fiction Preis ("German Science Fiction Prize") for Best Novel.[3]
Her sister was writer and sociologist Freya Pausewang.
References[change | change source]
- ↑ Gudrun Pausewang ist tot. spiegel.de (german)
- ↑ The Children's War: Traitor by Gudrun Pausewang, translated by Rachel Ward
- ↑ Gudrun Wilcke at LC Authorities, 2 records
Other websites[change | change source]
- Gudrun Pausewang: Manna Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
- TES magazine (Children's books; Arts) "What Alice discovered" Interview with Gudrun Pausewang[permanent dead link]
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