Alice Kuipers

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Alice Kuipers

Alice Kuipers (* 1979 in London ) is a British author.

Life

Kuipers grew up in a suburb of London and was already writing poems, stories and diary entries in her notebook as a teenager. At the age of 18, she embarked on a one-year trip alone, which took her to the Cook Islands , Fiji , the United States, Australia, Cambodia and Vietnam , among others . She graduated from the University of Manchester with a degree in Psychology , but spent more time working on a novel than studying. This was followed by a Magister Artium at Manchester Metropolitan University . Kuipers has lived in Saskatoon, Canada, since 2003 .

Kuiper's first novel, Life on the Refrigerator Door , was published in 2007 by Macmillan Publishers and consists of a written dialogue between a mother with cancer and her 15-year-old daughter. The book was u. a. translated into German ( see you tomorrow? ), Finnish, French, Dutch, Polish, Spanish and Swedish, and has so far been published in 29 countries. The book was in 2008 for a Carnegie Medal nominated and received a number of awards for youth literature, including the Redbridge Teenage Book Award of the London district Redbridge . The German and English language versions are also available as audio books.

Her next novel, Lost for Words , was published in 2010.

Works

  • Life on the refrigerator door - a novel in notes between a mother and daughter . HarperCollins, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-06-137049-6
    • German: shall we see you tomorrow? A very special novel , translated from the English by Anna and Christine Strüh. Krüger, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-8105-1063-1 .
    • Finnish: Terveisin äiti , transferred from Katariina Kaila. Otava, Helsinki 2008.
    • French: Ne t'inquiète pas pour moi , translated by Valérie Le Plouhinec. Michel, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-226-18229-6 .
    • Dutch: Briefjes op de keukentafel , transferred by Christine Elion. Mouria, Amsterdam 2008, ISBN 978-90-458-0020-2 .
    • Swedish: Livet på en kylskåpsdörr , transferred by Louise Thulin. Månpocket, Stockholm 2008, ISBN 978-91-7001-626-4 .
    • Spanish: La vida a la porta de la nevera , 2007.
    • Polish: Zycie na drzwiach lodowki , transferred from Anna Bernaczyk. Dom Wydawniczy Rebis, Posen 2008, ISBN 978-83-7510-268-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Author portrait of Alice Kuiper ( Memento from August 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at Pan Macmillan Books. (Accessed December 10, 2009.)
  2. ↑ harpercollins.ca: Alice Kuipers: About the Author , access 1 February 2011
  3. ↑ a b Author portrait of Alice Kuiper at Fischer Verlage. (Accessed December 10, 2009.)
  4. ↑ http://www.paperblog.fr/777727/alice-kuipers/
  5. ↑ Current and previous winners ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (Retrieved December 10, 2009.)

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personal data
SURNAME Kuipers, Alice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English author
DATE OF BIRTH 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH London