Christine Nöstlinger

Austrian children's and young adult's writer (1936-2018)

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Lived 1936–2018, aged 82Austria

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Wikipedia
41 languages
Cross-language footprint
Rank in Austria
#209
Writers
Era
1936–2018
Aged 82
Known for
Maikäfer flieg
2016

Summary

Updated 2026-06-19

Christine Nöstlinger was an Austrian writer best known for children's books. She received one of two inaugural Astrid Lindgren Memorial Awards from the Swedish Arts Council in 2003, the biggest prize in children's literature, for her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense." She received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for "lasting contribution to children's literature" in 1984 and was one of three people through 2012 to win both of these major international awards.