Heike Brandt

Heike Brandt (born 1947) studied education and initially worked for four years in a settlement for homeless people. She subsequently worked at a children’s bookshop collective she had helped to found. From the mid-1980s onward, she worked freelance as an author, translator from English, reviewer, and radio writer, primarily in the field of children’s and young adult literature. Her first book, “Die Menschenrechte haben kein Geschlecht,” was shortlisted for the German Youth Literature Prize in 1990. In 1991, she received the Gustav Heinemann Peace Prize for her translation of Virginia Hamilton’s “M. C. Higgins der Große”; in 1994, her translation of F. L. Buss’s “Ein fremdes Land” received the Blaue Brillenschlange award.