Paul Biegel
The author of more than fifty books for children, Paul Biegel was one of Europe’s most acclaimed and best-loved storytellers. He was born in Bussum, the Netherlands, in 1926, the youngest of nine children.
Although his ambition was to become a pianist he studied law, and after a period of living in the United States he returned to the Netherlands and found work as the writer of a widely circulated comic strip. The experience inspired him to write his first novel, The Golden Guitar, which was published in 1960. The King of the Copper Mountains followed in 1965 and was named Children’s Book of the Year. The Gardens of Dorr (1969), The Little Captain (1971), The Twelve Robbers (1972), and more recently Night Story (1992) and The Soldier-Maker (1994) are amongst his most famous works.
He died in October 2006.
Books By Paul Biegel:
The King of the Copper Mountains
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