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Cornelia Funke

1958 - Today

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Cornelia Maria Funke (German: [kɔʁˈneːli̯a ˈfʊŋkə] ; born 10 December 1958) is a German author of children's fiction. Born in Dorsten, North Rhine-Westphalia, she began her career as a social worker before becoming a book illustrator. She began writing novels in the late 1980s and focused primarily on fantasy-oriented stories that depict the lives of children faced with adversity. Funke has since become Germany's "bestselling author for children". Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cornelia Funke is the 2,604th most popular writer (up from 2,726th in 2019), the 2,775th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,874th in 2019) and the 168th most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Cornelia Funke ranks 2,604 out of 7,302. Before her are Bhanubhakta Acharya, Timotheus of Miletus, Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, André Salmon, Isaac Casaubon, and Jorge Guillén. After her are Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, Ottavio Rinuccini, Mir Taqi Mir, D. B. Weiss, Polemon I of Pontus, and Giulio Angioni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Cornelia Funke ranks 109. Before her are Anne Holt, Zdravko Krivokapić, Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi, Joan Jett, Fiona Shaw, and Lorenzo Lamas. After her are Peter Capaldi, Tracey Adams, Eric Singer, Sean Michaels, Phil Scott, and Julia Nickson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Cornelia Funke ranks 2,776 out of 7,253. Before her are Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1519), Countess Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg (1602), Jürgen Ehlers (1929), Peter Schreier (1935), Jörg Immendorff (1945), and Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739). After her are Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1779), Oskar von Hutier (1857), Conrad Graf (1782), Gerd Albrecht (1935), Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin (1684), and Princess Luise Dorothea of Prussia (1680).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Cornelia Funke ranks 168. Before her are Ernst von Salomon (1902), Picander (1700), Charlotte Buff (1753), Joseph Görres (1776), Matthias Claudius (1740), and Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739). After her are Friedrich Spee (1591), Martin Walser (1927), Udo Lindenberg (1946), Malwida von Meysenbug (1816), Heinz G. Konsalik (1921), and Johann Froben (1460).

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