Martin Auer is an

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n writer. He was born in

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in 1951. After finishing school, he started but never finished the study of German and History. He was an actor, a singer-songwriter, a journalist, and a magician, before he published his first book in 1986. Since then, he has published more than 40 titles, about two thirds for children. He has been awarded several prizes, among them the Austrian National Prize for Children's Literature in 1994, 1998, and 2000. He has been nominated for th
Hans Christian Andersen Medal
in 1997, and has been made an Honorary Professor in 2005. His book, '' Der seltsame Krieg'' ('' The Strange War''), is available on the Internet in more than 20 languages. In print, it has been published in

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(). Since 2002, Martin Auer has been a regular contributor to

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's
Parenting
' magazine.

Works translated in English

* '' Now, Now, Markus, or, I Need a Bird'' (illustrated by Simone Klages) * ''

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Notes

External links

Martin Auer's homepage
in German and English
The Strange War - Stories for a Culture of Peace
in more than 20 languages
The Happy Hour Storybook

author page
at Lyrikline.org, with audio and text in German, and translations into Albanian and Persian. {{DEFAULTSORT:Auer, Martin Austrian male writers Living people 1951 births Writers from Vienna Austrian children's writers