Erich Kästner

Erich Kästner was a German writer born on February 23, 1899, in Dresden, and died on July 29, 1974, in Munich. He is best known for his children's books, including the worldwide bestseller Emil and the Detectives (1929), Pünktchen und Anton (1931), and Das doppelte Lottchen (1949), as well as satirical poetry and the novel Fabian (1931). Despite his works being burned by the Nazis, he received major awards like the Hans Christian Andersen Award (1960) and Georg Büchner Prize (1957), and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature multiple times.