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Mirjam Pressler

1940 - 2019

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Mirjam Pressler, born Mirjam Gunkel (18 June 1940 – 16 January 2019) was a German novelist and translator. Being the author of more than 30 children's and teenage books, she also translated into German more than 300 works by other writers from Hebrew, English, Dutch and Afrikaans. She is also known for translating a revision of Anne Frank's diary, The Diary of a Young Girl, in 1991, thus renewing its copyright. Born to a Jewish mother, Pressler was raised in a foster home. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mirjam Pressler is the 5,033rd most popular writer (down from 4,779th in 2019), the 4,754th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,529th in 2019) and the 299th most popular German Writer.

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Among writers, Mirjam Pressler ranks 5,033 out of 7,302. Before her are Margaret Mazzantini, Henry of Huntingdon, Oskar Pastior, Hervé Guibert, Robert Hugh Benson, and Diomidis Kyriakos. After her are Richard Bentley, Alexei Mateevici, Botho Strauß, Adolf Friedrich von Schack, Atiq Rahimi, and Nicholas Evans.

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Among people born in 1940, Mirjam Pressler ranks 398. Before her are Zoran Janković, Jacques Higelin, Vladimir Korenev, Aracy Balabanian, Jürgen Heinsch, and Eladio Silvestre. After her are Richard Attwood, Tilo Prückner, Gene Pitney, Homa Darabi, Manuel Esquivel, and Vojislav Melić. Among people deceased in 2019, Mirjam Pressler ranks 364. Before her are Jeremy Kemp, Egisto Pandolfini, Alan Krueger, Jessica Jaymes, Diogo Freitas do Amaral, and Larry Cohen. After her are Pedro Morales, Zvonimir Vujin, Vitaliy Khmelnytskyi, Gjermund Eggen, Inger Berggren, and Carol Channing.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Mirjam Pressler ranks 4,757 out of 7,253. Before her are Ulrike Meyfarth (1956), Theodor Plievier (1892), Paul Weinstein (1878), Hildegard Falck (1949), David Garrett (1980), and Petra Felke (1959). After her are Willi Giesemann (1937), Dieter Krause (1936), Botho Strauß (1944), Kurt Maetzig (1911), Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff (1807), and Anita Rée (1885).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Mirjam Pressler ranks 299. Before her are Adolf Brand (1874), Joseph Victor von Scheffel (1826), Fritz von Unruh (1885), Hans Werner Richter (1908), Joseph Meyer (1796), and Theodor Plievier (1892). After her are Botho Strauß (1944), Adolf Friedrich von Schack (1815), Walter Kempowski (1929), Hermann Kant (1926), Johann Gottfried Seume (1763), and Sarah Kirsch (1935).

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