Otfried Preußler (pronounced [ˈɔtfʁiːt ˈpʁɔʏslɐ] ; sometimes spelled Preussler; born Otfried Syrowatka; 20 October 1923 – 18 February 2013) was a German children's book author.
More than fifty million copies of his books have been sold worldwide and they have been translated into fifty-five languages. His best-known works are The Robber Hotzenplotz and The Satanic Mill (Krabat).
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