Jutta Richter

Jutta Richter is among the most celebrated of German children's authors. She has written more than twenty books, for which she has won several awards, including the German Youth Literature Award, the Herman Hesse Prize for her body of work, and the Pied Piper's Prize of Hamelyn. The Summer of the Pike, the first of her books to be translated into English, was published by Milkweed Editions in 2006. The Cat, her second book with Milkweed Editions, won the American Library Association 2008 Batchelder Honor Award for children's books in translation. She lives in a castle in Munsterland, Germany, and also in Lucca, Italy.