Bodil Bredsdorff
Bodil Bredsdorff (born March 3, 1951 in Hillerød in Denmark ) is a Danish children's and youth author.
Life
Bodil Bredsdorff, born in 1951, is a well-known Danish children's book author. She is a trained educator, studied advertising at the Copenhagen School of Applied Arts and produced television programs for children. For over ten years she has devoted herself entirely to writing. For her children's book series ( Die Kinder von der Krähenbucht ) she received the Children's Book Prize of the Danish Ministry of Culture in 1995 and the Prize of the Danish Culture Fund / Literature in 1996, in the USA among others the Booklist Editor's Choice 2004, de School Liebrary Journal Best Book of the Year 2004 and in France the Prix Chranos de littérature 2008 . In the reason for the award of the prize, the Danish minister of culture described Bredsdorff's style as being as beautiful and poetic as it is brief and unsentimental.
Prizes and awards
- 1982: Prize of the Danish children's bookseller together with the illustrator Lilian Brøgger for her book series Linda
- 1995: Children's book award from the Danish Ministry of Culture for the children's book series Börnene i Kragevik ( The Children of Crow's Bay )
- 2005: Mildred L. Batchelder Award for the same series
Publications (selection)
- translated into German
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Min slagsbor .
- translated by Patrick Zöller : Among brothers . Urachhaus, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-8251-7669-3 .
- New edition with a new title: Schlagschatten . Urachhaus, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-8251-7835-2 .
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Pilgrims in Villa Sorrento .
- translated by Patrick Zöller: The girls from the Villa Sorrento , Urachhaus, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-8251-7746-1 .
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Kaptajnen i blommedrœet
- translated by Patrick Zöller: love, long, easy days . Urachhaus, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-8251-7833-8 .
- Series The Children of Crows Bay
- 1995: collars
- 1996: Eidi
- 1996: Tink
- 1997: Alek
- other books
- 1975: Det hvar Linda bor , Fromad publishing house, Copenhagen.
- 1977: Det hele er lige begyndt , with illustrations by Dorte Salicath .
- 1979: Da Linda ikke ville hjem , with illustrations by Lilian Brøgger .
- 1980: Lindas mor er buschauffør , with illustrations by Lilian Brøgger.
- 1983: Marias mor bor alene , with illustrations by Lilian Brøgger.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bredsdorff, Bodil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish children's author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hillerød , Denmark |