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Cornelia Funke [1958-0] German
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Cornelia Maria Funke is a German author of children's fiction. She was born on December 10, 1958, in Dorsten, North Rhine-Westphalia. Funke is best known for her Inkheart trilogy, published in 2004–2008. Many of her books have now been translated into English. Her work fits mainly into the fantasy and adventure genres. She currently lives in Beverly Hills, California.
Funke has sold over 20 million copies of her books worldwide.

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If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids. Home
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I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. Imagination
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Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
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I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.
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Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.
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Every German child learns to speak English in school.
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A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.
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They are shooting The Thief Lord in Venice at the moment.
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I wish I had more time to visit schools.
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And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.
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My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.
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I like to visit my horse, have a walk with my dog.
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I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.
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Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.
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I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.
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And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.
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And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.
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My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.
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Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.
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I love to read, I love to watch movies, and I love to be with my children.
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My son always says I like very weird music.
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I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.
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There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.
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I don't like to eat the same dish every day, so I read very different things.
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I will try to write books until I drop dead.
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I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside.
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Yes, I always imagined living in other places.
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I love to read aloud.
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