Gudrun Pausewang

Who is Gudrun Pausewang?

Gudrun Pausewang is a German writer for children and teens. She is also noted in science fiction for Young-Adult novels like The Last Children of Schewenborn.

Gudrun Pausewang was born in Eastern Bohemia of German ancestry and after World War II her family settled in the former West Germany. She later became a teacher and taught in Germany's foreign school services in South America. She has won several awards including the Bundesverdienstkreuz. She has written 86 novels with many of them involving the Third World and environmental concerns.

She won for Die Wolke the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis and the Deutscher Science Fiction Preis in 1988.

Books: Dark Hours, translated by John Brownjohn, published in America through Annick Press.

New York Public Library’s Books for the Teen Age 2007

2007-2008 Tayshas High School Reading List, Texas Library Association

Independent Publisher Book Award, Silver.