Uwe-Michael Gutzschhahn

Born in 1952, Uwe-Michael Gutzschhahn studied English and German literature and earned a doctorate. He worked for many years as a publishing editor and was active as an author, translator, editor and freelance editor. His translations received several awards, including the Catholic Children’s and Young People’s Book Prize and the German Children’s Literature Award four times. In 2018, he received the German Children’s Literature Award’s special prize for his complete body of work as a translator.