Erich Kästner
(1899-1974)
German author, poet and satirist
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Emil Erich Kästner ( 23 February 1899 – 29 July 1974) was a German author, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known primarily for his humorous, socially astute poems and for children's books including Emil and the Detectives. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1960 for his autobiography Als ich ein kleiner Junge war [de]. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.
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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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