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James Krüss

1926 - 1997

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James Krüss (31 May 1926 – 2 August 1997) was a German writer of children's and picture books, illustrator, poet, dramatist, scriptwriter, translator, and collector of children's poems and folk songs. For his contribution as a children's writer he received the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1968. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. James Krüss is the 4,243rd most popular writer (down from 4,089th in 2019), the 4,234th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,065th in 2019) and the 258th most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, James Krüss ranks 4,243 out of 7,302. Before him are Glen A. Larson, Cassandra Clare, Eno Raud, María de Zayas, Raphael Holinshed, and Marilynne Robinson. After him are Pyotr Vyazemsky, Radclyffe Hall, Natallia Arsiennieva, Annemarie Selinko, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, and Osip Brik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, James Krüss ranks 305. Before him are Samuel Goldwyn Jr., Geoffrey Howe, Ludvík Vaculík, Jacques Rozier, Christine Jorgensen, and Ian Paisley. After him are Bal Thackeray, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Astrid Ivask, Sverre Stenersen, Bryan Johnson, and Hong Deok-young. Among people deceased in 1997, James Krüss ranks 193. Before him are Helen Jacobs, Anne Stine Ingstad, Willy den Ouden, Pedro Zaballa, Tony Williams, and Chris Farley. After him are Léon Poliakov, Natallia Arsiennieva, Bozorg Alavi, Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh, Corneliu Baba, and Arthur Machado.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, James Krüss ranks 4,236 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (1798), Ingrid Gulbin (1943), Frederick I, Count Palatine of Simmern (1417), Georg von Habsburg (1964), Hans Zender (1936), and Alfred Abel (1879). After him are Joseph Vilsmaier (1939), Jutta Rüdiger (1910), Margot Hielscher (1919), Joachim Ringelnatz (1883), Hugo von Mohl (1805), and Wolfgang Uhlmann (1935).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, James Krüss ranks 258. Before him are Irmgard Keun (1905), Cordelia Edvardson (1929), Johann Georg von Hahn (1811), Ruth Westheimer (1928), Max Lange (1832), and Emanuel Geibel (1815). After him are Joachim Ringelnatz (1883), Elisabeth Langgässer (1899), Robert Jungk (1913), Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927), Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916), and Bel Kaufman (1911).

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