Erich Kästner

Born

February 23, 1899

Died

July 29, 1974 (aged 75)

Known as

writer, poet, novelist, children's writer, screenwriter, journalist

Emil Erich Kästner was a German writer, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known primarily for his humorous, socially astute poems and for children's books including Emil and the Detectives and Lisa and Lottie. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1960 for his autobiography When I Was a Little Boy. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in eight separate years.

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