Wendy Orr (author)

Wendy Orr (* 1953 in Edmonton , Canada ) is an Australian author for children and young people.

Life

Wendy Orr was born in Canada and grew up in Longuyon , Magny-Metz , Ottawa , Red Deer , Colorado Springs , Toronto and Middleton in Nova Scotia , as her father was employed by the Air Force and changed locations frequently. Already in her childhood she decided to become a writer. At the age of nine, she wrote Spring Island , which she later saw as an anticipation or first version of her book Nim's Island . After initially considering studying journalism and then training to be an animal caretaker, she studied occupational therapy in London . In Wales she met her future husband Tom, with whom she moved to Australia after completing her education. There she first worked in Albury as an occupational therapist. In 1980 the family bought a farm in Victoria . About 20 years later, Wendy Orr and her husband moved to a bush plot in the Mornington Peninsula Shire that she was trying to create as a habitat for wildlife.

In 1986, Wendy Orr wrote the picture book Amanda's Dinosaur . In 1991, after a car accident, she was no longer able to work as an occupational therapist; the accident and the rehabilitation went into the book Peeling the Onion . In 1993 Leaving it to You was shortlisted by the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year, junior readers; In 1995 Ark in the Park won this award. Peeling the Onion was awarded the 1997 Honor Book for the Childrens's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year, older readers. Wendy Orr's other books have also received various awards. Nim's Island was filmed with Jodie Foster , Abigail Breslin and Gerard Butler , German title: Die Insel der Abenteuer , 2008, second episode 2013 was called: Return to Nim's Island (German: The return to the island of adventure ).

Works (selection)

• Nim's Island . Allen & Unwin, Sydney 2008, ISBN 978-1-74175-473-5 .
  • German: How do you hide an island? (Dtv Junior; Vol. 71318). Dtv, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-423-71318-4 (EA Munich 2002; translated by Sabine Ludwig )
  • Audiobook : How to Hide an Island To the film "The Island of Adventure" . Unabridged reading. Audiobook Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-86742-643-5 (2 CDs read by Ulrike Grote . Director: Dörte Foede).
• Nim at Sea . Allen & Unwin, Sydney 2007, ISBN 978-1-74114-861-9 .
  • German: SOS for Selkie (Dtv Junior; Bd. 71478). Dtv, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-423-71478-5 (translated by Beate Schaefer ).
• Peeling the onion. How many layers hide the person you really are? . Allen & Unwin, Sydney 2006, ISBN 978-1-74114-933-3
  • German: The emergency or start living! Aare Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1998, ISBN 3-7260-0493-9 (translated by Ursula Schmidt-Steinbach).

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1. ↑ ^{a b} Illustrated by Kerry Millard.
2. ^ Peeling the Onion. How many layers hide the person you really are? ( Memento from July 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Sabine Sporing and Britta Mittmann: I won't turn 18 like this! ( Memento of August 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) . 1999 (review).

Web links

• Wendy Orr's homepage