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Profile of Michael Ende on Famous Like Me

 
Name: Michael Ende  
   
Also Know As:
   
Date of Birth: 12th November 1929
   
Place of Birth: Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany
   
Profession: Writer
 
 
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Michael Ende (November 12, 1929 – August 29, 1995) was a German writer of fantasy novels and children's books. He was born in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Bavaria, Germany), son of the surrealist painter Edgar Ende. He died in Stuttgart (Germany) of stomach cancer. He is best known for his work Die unendliche Geschichte (The Neverending Story), and his other books include Momo and Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer.

He is one of the most popular and most famous German authors of the 20th century, mostly due to the enormous success of his children's books, which invite the reader into strange worlds full of visionary symbolic power and enable them to identify with the heroes of the story.

Michael Ende's works have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 20 million copies.

Selected Works

Michael Ende's works include:

  • Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer (1960) (published in the United States as Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver)
  • Jim Knopf und die Wilde Dreizehn (1962) (published in the United States as Jim Button and the Wild 13)
    • Overlook Press, 1990, ISBN 0-87951-391-8
  • Tranquilla Trampeltreu die beharrliche Schildkröte (1972)
  • Momo (English as The Grey Gentlemen) (1973)
    • Viking Penguin Press, 1986, ISBN 0-14-009464-4
  • Das Traumfresserchen (1978)
  • Die unendliche Geschichte (English as The Neverending Story) (1979)
    • Amereon Ltd., 1979, ISBN 0-8488-1306-5
    • Buccaneer Books, 1991, ISBN 0-89966-807-0
    • Puffin Books, 1993, ISBN 0-14-038633-5
    • NAL/Dutton, 1997, ISBN 0-52545758-5
  • Der Lindwurm und der Schmetterling oder Der seltsame Tausch (1981)
  • Juggler's Tale (1982)
  • Der Spiegel im Spiegel (English as Mirror in the Mirror) (1986)
  • Ophelias Schattentheater (English as Ophelia's Shadow Theater) (1988)
    • Overlook Press, 1989, ISBN 0-87951-371-3
  • Der satanarchäolügenialkohöllische Wunschpunsch (1989) (translated as The Night of Wishes: or, The Satanarchaeolidealcohellish Notion Potion)
    • Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992, ISBN 0-374-19594-3
    • Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995, ISBN 0-374-45503-1
    • Sunburst Press, 1995, ISBN 0-14-93759-4
  • Der lange Weg nach Santa Cruz (1992)
  • Das Gefängnis der Freiheit (1992)
    • Weitbrecht Verlag, 1992, ISBN 85-517-7933-2
  • Der Rattenfänger (1993)

External references

  • Biography
  • Michael Ende's Last Words to the Japanese

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