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Recommended feature about Cornelia Funke in Deutsche Well:

In 1979, the German children’s book writer Michael Ende decided to take a journey into imagery realms in his writing: His epic book, The Neverending Story, takes place in a magical world full of adventure that appealed not only to children. Many adults also fell in love with the powerful story. And those who were fortunate enough to experience The Neverending Story during their childhood are still fans today.

But those children have long grown up and have children of their own now. And their generation has their own author who explores universes of the imagination: Cornelia Funke. There’s hardly a child today who hasn’t read Funke’s work or has at least listened to audio books or watched film adaptations of her books.

Read all >>> https://www.dw.com/en/cornelia-funke-inkheart/a-45803587

I don’t often link to Times features, because of the paywall, but there was a rather good double page feature profile of Judith Kerr in yesterday Times Review, in which, amongst other things, the 92-year-old Kerr showed herself to be very clear-headed about the current migrant situation:

“It’s almost overwhelming change. I think it’s not just the war in Syria, it’s that people who used to live fairly awful lives in all those places didn’t know there was anything better and now they can see it, how people live [in the West]. It will be a different world. The religion bit is the uncertain thing. Otherwise there wouldn’t be a problem at all: these are excellent people.”

Judith Kerr’s latest book is Mister Cleghorn’s Seal

via From fleeing Hitler to teatime with tiger: the adventures of Judith Kerr | The Times.