Otfried Preussler (1923 - 2013) was a German author of
children's books. Drafted into the German army during World War II,
Preussler was taken prisoner in 1944 when he was 21 years old and
spent the next five years in POW camps in the Tatar Republic. After
his release, he became a primary school teacher and began writing
and publishing children's stories that would one day be translated
into over 55 languages. He was awarded the 1972 German Youth
Literature Prize for Krabat.
Anthea Bell (1936-2018) was the recipient of the 2009
Schlegel-Tieck Prize for her translation of Stefan Zweig’s Burning
Secret. In 2002 she won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and
the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize for her translation of W.G. Sebald’s
Austerlitz. Her translations of Zweig’s novellas Confusion and
Journey into the Past are available as NYRB Classics.
“As a full-length novel, Krabat and the Sorcerer’s Mill incorporates most elements of the old story, [“The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,”] while establishing regional bona fides with the name and nature of its hero... At that time, a novelist could assume certain elements of background knowledge that are less likely to be known today, particularly by English-speaking children...but it is not necessary for them to appreciate the powerful themes at work here.” —Meghan Cox Gurdon, The Wall Street Journal
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