Erich Kästner
(1899-1974)
German children's writer
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Emil Erich Kästner (23 February 1899 – 29 July 1974) was a German writer, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known primarily for his humorous, socially astute poems and for children's books including Emil and the Detectives and Lisa and Lottie. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1960 for his autobiography Als ich ein kleiner Junge war [de]. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in six separate years.
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23 February 1899 Dresden, Saxony, Germany
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29 July 1974 (aged 75) Munich, Bavaria, West Germany
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