Category: European authors
Goll, Claire
About the author Claire Goll (1890–1977) was born Klara Liliane Aischmann in Nürnberg, and grew up speaking German and French. She studied literature and philosphy at the Universities of Geneva and the Sorbonne in Paris, and became a poet, publishing her first book of poetry, Mitwelt, in Berlin in 1918. In 1911, she married Heinrich Studer,…
Lindman, Maj
About the author Maj Lindman is a Swedish author, whose books found widespead success in America. Her Snipp, Snapp, Snurr and Flicka, Ricka, Dicka series are still in print. She has written at least two horse stories about Fire Eye. Finding the booksNeither Fire Eye nor Snowboot are particularly easy to find. Links and sourcesNational…
Peterson, Hans
About the author Hans Peterson (1922–2022) was a prolific Swedish author of children’s books. He wrote a series about a boy called Magnus, of which Magnus and the Wagon Horse is one title. In its original Swedish incarnation, Magnus, Mattias och Mari, it won the Nils Holgersson Plaque in 1958. Both Peterson’s horse stories appear…
Ruepp, Krista
About the author Krista Ruepp was born in 1947 in Cologne, Germany. She started writing as a girl (though her early writings are alas lost) and carried on story telling. When her children were born, she told them stories, and these were developed into her first book Mitternachtsreiter (Midnight Rider). With that book, as with…
Wallin, Marie-Louise
About the author Marie-Louise Wallin (b.1933) is a Swedish author of children’s books. She grew up in Dubai, and became a teacher. Tangles (1975) was her first book, and the first in an oeuvre which concentrated on the complexities of relationships between teenagers. The book was translated into several languages, and Kirkus liked the English…
Keane, Molly
About the author Molly Keane (1904–96), author of Good Behaviour and Time after Time, also wrote under the pseudonym M J Farrell, under which name she wrote several stories based on hunting life, and Red Letter Days. Molly Keane was born Molly Skrine, and spent her childhood in Ireland and Bath. It was a lonely…
Hahn, Lotte K
About the author Lotte K. Hahn was born in Czechoslovakia and grew up in Bremen, Germany, where she studied acting and later worked in the German theatre. While she was living in Germany, she became fascinated by unicorn legends, which gave her the idea for The Unicorn Who Wanted to Be Seen. After living in…
Adam, Gabi
About the author Gabi Adam is a German author, who contributes to the Stabenfeldt Pony Club series. She was born in Southern Germany, and still lives there. Her main contribution to Stabenfeldt has been the epic Diablo series, about Diablo and his rider, Ricki. So far, I have been able to track down 18 titles.…