Krabat and the Sorcerer's Mill
Krabat and the Sorcerer's Mill
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Author(s): Preussler, Otfried
ISBN No.: 9781590177785
Pages: 264
Year: 201409
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 24.77
Status: Out Of Print

Otfried Preussler (1923-2013) was born into a family of teachers in Reichenberg, Czechoslovakia, and as a boy loved listening to the folktales of the region, including the old Sorbian tale of the sorcerer's apprentice, upon which Krabat & the Sorcerer's Mill is based. Drafted into the army during World War II, Preussler was captured in 1944 and spent the next five years as a prisoner of war in the Tatar Republic. After his release, he moved to Bavaria and became a primary-school teacher and principal, supplementing his income by working as a reporter for a local newspaper and by writing scripts for children's radio. One of the most popular authors for children in Germany, Preussler was twice awarded the German Children's Book Prize. His many books have been translated into fifty-five languages and have sold over fifty million copies. New York Review Books will also publish Preussler's The Little Witch , The Robber Hotzenplotz , and The Little Water Sprite .  Anthea Bell is a renowned translator from the German, French, and Danish, and the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize, and, three times over, the Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation. She has translated Asterix , Hans Christian Andersen, Cornelia Funke, Kerstin Gier, W.


G. Sebald, Sigmund Freud, and several novels by Stefan Zweig, including Confusion and Journey into the Past , both available as New York Review Books Classics. She lives in the United Kingdom.  .


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