Eva Ibbotson (1925–2010)
Autor(a) de The Secret of Platform 13
About the Author
Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna, Austria, on January 21, 1925. She graduated from Bedford College, London with a degree in physiology in 1945 and the University of Durham with a degree in education in 1965. Her first book, The Great Ghost Rescue, was published in 1975. She primarily wrote mostrar mais children's book and romance novels for adults and young adults. Her other works include The Secret of Platform 13, The Star of Kazan, Which Witch?, Island of the Aunts, Dial-a-Ghost, The Ogre of Oglefort, A Company of Swans, and A Song For Summer. She won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize for Journey to the River Sea. She died on October 20, 2010 at the age of 85. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras de Eva Ibbotson
Books 1 exemplar(es)
Eva Ibbotson 3 Books collection Set (The Star of Kazan, The Dragonfly Pool,Journey to the River Sea) (2017) 1 exemplar(es)
The Great Ghost Rescue / The Secret of Platform 13 / Dial-a-Ghost / The Island of the Aunts / Which Witch? 1 exemplar(es)
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Ibbotson, Eva
- Nome de batismo
- Wiesner Ibbotson, Eva Maria Charlotte Michelle
- Data de nascimento
- 1925-01-25
- Data de falecimento
- 2010-10-20
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Austria
UK - Local de nascimento
- Vienna, Austria
- Local de falecimento
- Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England, UK
- Causa da morte
- heart attack
- Locais de residência
- Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
London, England, UK
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK - Educação
- University of London (BA|1945 - Bedford College, Physiology)
University of Cambridge
University of Durham (Dipl. 1965) - Ocupação
- teacher
biologist
children's book author - Relacionamentos
- Gmeyner, Anna (mother)
Ibbotson, Alan (husband)
Wiesner, Bertold (father) - Premiações
- Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (2001, 2004)
- Pequena biografia
- Eva Ibbotson (born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner, 1925, Vienna, Austria) was a British novelist specializing in romance and children's fantasy. Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1925. When Hitler came into power, Ibbotson's family moved to England. She attended Bedford College, graduating in 1945; Cambridge University from 1946-47; and the University of Durham, from which she graduated with a diploma in education in 1965. Ibbotson had intended to be a physiologist, but was put off by the amount of animal testing that she would have to do. Instead, she married and raised a family, returning to school to become a teacher in the 1960's. Ibbotson was widowed with three sons and a daughter.
Ibottson began writing with the television drama Linda Came Today, in 1965. Ten years later, she published her first novel, The Great Ghost Rescue. Ibbotson has written numerous books including The Secret of Platform 13, Journey to the River Sea, Which Witch?, Island of the Aunts, and Dial-a-Ghost. She won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize for Journey to the River Sea, and has been a runner up for many of major awards for British children's literature. The books are imaginative and humorous, and most of them feature magical creatures and places, despite the fact that she disliked thinking about the supernatural, and created the characters because she wanted to decrease her readers' fear of such things. Some of the books, particularly Journey to the River Sea, also reflect Ibbotson's love of nature. Ibbotson wrote this book in honor of her husband (who had died just before she wrote it), a former naturalist. The book had been in her head for years before she actually wrote it. Ibbotson said she dislikes "financial greed and a lust for power" and often creates antagonists in her books who have these characteristics. Some have been struck by the similarity of "Platform 9 3/4" in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books to Ibbotson's The Secret of Platform 13, which came out three years before the first Harry Potter book.
Her love of Austria is evident in works such as The Star Of Kazan and A Song For Summer. These books, set primarily in the Austrian countryside, display the author's love for nature and all things natural.
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Es hat einen gut durchdachten Plot, alles fließt zusammen wie die Flussmetapher am Ende haha. Ich mag die Charaktere, aber es wurde viel zu wenig auf die Charakterdynamiken eingegangen, sodass ich nicht wirklich nachvollziehen konnte, wie sie sich alle so gerne mögen konnten, wenn ich ganz ehrlich bin.
Sehr gemütlich, nicht zu aufregend. Vielleicht gut zum Vorlesen, aber ich war echt kurz vorm Aufgeben, weil mich die Plottwists zwar interessiert haben, aber ich nicht wirklich mochte, wie auf sie hingedeutet wurde.
Es gibt positive, wie negative Aspekte, deshalb drei Sterne, aber ich denke es lag im Endeffekt alles am Schreibstil, der mir nicht gefallen hat. Er war zu distanziert für ein Buch, in dem man mit den Charakteren sympathisieren soll, was bei diesem Buch offensichtlich geplant war.
Das Ende hat mir sehr gefallen. Aber das Buch war zu lang.
Aber ich mochte trotzdem das Setting, die Beschreibungen und es war overall schon ein süßes Buch. Ach, keine Ahnung, lies es oder lass es.… (mais)