1974
Erich Kästner, German author and poet (born 1899)
Erich Kästner, German author and poet (born 1899)
Erich Kästner, German author and poet (born 1899)
Erich Kästner
German author, poet and satirist (1899–1974)
- Died
- 1974
Emil Erich Kästner was a German writer, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known primarily for his humorous, socially astute poems and for children's books including Emil and the Detectives and Lisa and Lottie. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1960 for his autobiography When I Was a Little Boy. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in eight separate years.