Yvonne Hergane

Yvonne Hergane was born in 1968 in Reschitza, Romania, and grew up bilingual. She moved to Germany at the age of 14. She studied German, English and book studies in Augsburg and Munich. From the mid-1990s onward, she worked as a freelance author and literary translator, primarily translating children’s and young adult literature. Her own books include the picture books *Einer mehr* and *Borst vom Forst*, as well as *Sorum und Anders*. *Einer mehr* was nominated for the German Children’s and Young Adult Literature Prize in 2012, and *Sorum und Anders* received the Leipzig Reading Compass. Her work is noted for its use of wordplay, sounds and rhyme.