Cornelia Funke is a German author and illustrator of children’s and young adult books. She studied educational science and illustration in Hamburg. She has written more than 50 books, and her work has been translated into numerous languages and adapted for film and television many times over. Among her greatest successes are series such as »Ghosthunters«, »The Wild Chicks«, »Dragon Rider«, and the »Inkheart« series. For her literary work, she has received, among other honors, the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and, in 2022, the German Children’s Literature Award for her complete body of work. Cornelia Funke lives in Volterra, Italy, where she opens her two residencies to young artists and conservationists, inviting them to build a place defined by community rather than the sense of everyone fending for themselves.
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