Morris Gleitzman
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Morris Gleitzman (born January 9, 1953 in Sleaford ) is a children's and youth author who lives in Australia .
life and work
From the age of three, Gleitzman grew up in London until his family emigrated to Australia in 1969. Gleitzman earned his living doing temporary jobs in a wide variety of industries, meanwhile studying Professional Writing at Canberra College of Advanced Education, which he said gave him the ability to write anything but his own stories.
He initially wrote for film and television, including the Norman Gunston Show , until he made the transition to writing in 1985 with The Other Facts Of Life , a "book on film" that won the AWGIE Award for the Best Original Children's Film Script succeeded. More than two dozen books by Morris Gleitzman have appeared since then. In addition to these children's and young people's books, which have been translated into numerous languages and have received many prizes and awards, Gleitzman also wrote plays and for several years columns in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald . These works have also been published in anthologies. In 2010 his book was nominated once for the Gustav Heinemann Peace Prize for books for children and young people . In 2011 he was awarded the Catholic Children's and Young People's Book Prize for this work, together with the translator Uwe-Michael Gutzschhahn .
Works
Books for children and young readers
- The Other Facts of Life
- Second childhood
- Misery Guts
- Worry Warts
- Puppy Fat
- Blabber Mouth (German: Quasselstrippe, also available in Braille)
- Sticky Beak
- Belly flop
- Water wings
- Bumface
- Gift Of The Gab
- Toad Rage
- Wicked! (in collaboration with Paul Jennings)
- Deadly! (in collaboration with Paul Jennings)
- Adults only
- Toad Heaven
- Boy overboard
- Teacher's Pet
- Toad Away
- Girl underground
- Worm story
- Once (German: once )
- Aristotle's Nostril
- Doubting Thomas
- Then (German: Dann)
- Two Weeks with the Queen was adapted for the stage by Mary Morris and performed in numerous countries.
- Now (German: Jetzt)
Edited volumes on the newspaper columns
- Self Helpless
- Just looking
- Gleitzman on Saturday
Web links
- Literature by and about Morris Gleitzman in the catalog of the German National Library
- Morris Gleitzman in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Gleitzman's homepage
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gleitzman, Morris |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British-Australian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sleaford |