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Otfried Preußler

Preußler, Otfried

October 20, 1923 – February 18, 2013 (aged 89)

Birth place: Liberec, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia

2 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
October 1976 25 Review The Satanic Mill Delap's F & SF Review, October 1976
May 2012 Review Krabat Strange Horizons, 21 May 2012

2 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
2001 Chapbook The Little Water-Sprite Otfried Preußler
2001 Chapbook The Little Witch Otfried Preußler

Christened upon his birth as Otfried Syrowatka; the author's father initiated in 1941 to change the family's legal name to Preußler. After being released from his encampment as a Russian prisoner of war he found his new home near Rosenheim, Bavaria, West Germany, where he became a teacher, active from 1955 until 1970. Highly Commended for the 1972 Hans Christian Andersen Award.
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