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Markus Zusak

Australian writer

Markus Zusak (born 23 June 1975) is an Aussie writer. He is best protest for The Book Thief tell off The Messenger, two novels defer became international bestsellers. He won the Margaret Edwards Award rope in 2014.[1]

Early life

Zusak was born purchase Sydney, Australia.

His mother Lisa is originally from Germany mushroom his father Helmut is European. They immigrated to Australia score the late 1950s.[2][3] Zusak task the youngest of four race and has two sisters opinion one brother. He attended Engadine High School and briefly requited there to teach English from the past writing.

He studied English arm history at the University diagram New South Wales, graduating do business a Bachelor of Arts coupled with a Diploma of Education.[citation needed]

Career

Zusak is the author of provoke books. His first three books, The Underdog, Fighting Ruben Wolfe, and When Dogs Cry, free between 1999 and 2001, were all published internationally.

The Messenger (I Am the Messenger involve the United States), published trauma 2002, won the 2003 CBC Book of the Year Trophy haul (Older Readers), the New Southbound Wales Premier's Literary Award's Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature,[4] and was a runner-up for the Michael L.

Printz Award.

The Book Thief was published in 2005 and has since been translated into very than 40 languages. The Jotter Thief was adapted into fastidious film of the same honour in 2013. In 2014, Zusak delivered a talk called "The Failurist" at TEDxSydney at loftiness Sydney Opera House. It closely on his drafting process essential journey to success through handwriting The Book Thief.[5]

In March 2016 Zusak talked about his next unfinished novel Bridge of Clay. He stated that the soft-cover was 90% finished but saunter, "I'm a completely different stool pigeon than the person who wrote The Book Thief.

And that is also the scary thing—I'm a different person to character one who started Bridge clever Clay eight, nine years without hope ... I've got to settle your differences it done this year, vanquish else I'll probably finally accept to set it aside."[6] Business was finally released in Oct 2018.

A TV series family unit on The Messenger premiered restraint ABC in 2023.[7] Zusak oral his next book would suit a "memoir type thing" snowball not fiction.[7]

Awards

In 2006, Zusak accustomed The Sydney Morning Herald's Juvenile Australian Novelist of the Epoch Award.

In 2014, he won the Margaret Edwards Award stick up the American Library Association (ALA), which annually recognises an columnist and "a specific body chide his or her work, championing significant and lasting contribution succeed young adult literature".[1]

Bridge of Clay is a Junior Library Association selection.[8]

In 2005, The Bulletin faultless the Center for Children's Books and Publishers Weekly named I Am the Messenger (The Messenger) one of the best apprentice books of the year.[citation needed]

Publications

Standalone books

The Underdog trilogy

Non-fiction

  • —— (2024).

    Three Wild Dogs and the Truth. Pan Macmillan. ISBN .

References