Mirjam Pressler
- Miriam Pressler
- Marianne Gunkel
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- Pressler, Mirjam
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- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Date of birth
- 1940-06-18
- Place of birth
- Darmstadt
- Date of death
- 2019-01-16
- Place of death
- Landshut
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Mirjam Pressler, born Mirjam Gunkel (18 June 1940 – 16 January 2019) was a German novelist and translator. Being the author of more than 30 children's and teenage books, she also translated into German more than 300 works by other writers from Hebrew, English, Dutch and Afrikaans. She is also known for translating a revision of Anne Frank's diary, The Diary of a Young Girl, in 1991, thus renewing its copyright.
Born to a Jewish mother, Pressler was raised in a foster home. She studied painting at Städelschule in Frankfurt as well as English and French literary studies at LMU Munich. Before becoming a writer, she was a jeans shop retailer for eight years, who, as a single mother, raised three daughters. Later, she became a member of the PEN Centre Germany.
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- Mirjam Pressler translated Der freundliche Gasthof
- Mirjam Pressler translated Am Anfang war das Wort
- Mirjam Pressler translated Mord am Toten Meer
- Mirjam Pressler translated Wir Kinder von Bergen-Belsen
- Mirjam Pressler translated Judas
- Mirjam Pressler translated Lokalausgabe
- Mirjam Pressler translated Du sollst nicht begehren
- Mirjam Pressler translated Mann und Frau
- Mirjam Pressler translated Mord in der Knesset
- Mirjam Pressler translated Liebesleben
- Mirjam Pressler translated Tanzende Araber
- Mirjam Pressler translated Späte Familie
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