User:Lapsi35/Eveline Hasler

Eveline Hasler (22 March 1933 in Glarus, Switzerland) is a Swiss author of children's books, young-adult fiction, and literary historical fiction. Besides narratives about witchcraft trials, she wrote novels about other important, but neglected figures in Swiss (women’s) history.

Eveline Hasler is the recipient of many awards, among them the Switzerland Award for Juvenile Fiction (1978), Honors by the City of Zurich (1988), Schubart Award (1989), Droste Award (1994), Justinus Kerner Award (1999).

Works in English translation:

Flying with wings of wax: The story of Emily Kempin-Spyri. New York: Fromm International, 1993. Winter magic. Trans. Michele Lemieux. New York: W. Morrow, 1984. A tale of two brothers. Trans. Käthi Bhend; Marianne Martens. New York: North-South Books, 2006. ISBN-13: 978-0735821026 The giantess. Trans. Renate Seelig. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 1997. Martin is our friend. Trans. Dorothea Desmarowitz. Nashville: Abingdon, 1981. The garden town. Trans. Stepan Zavrel; Lenore Wilson. Pretoria: Daan Retief, 1989. Bats in the belfry. Trans. Jozef Wilkon. New York: Adama Books, 1988. The Birdmaker Witch. Stories of Child Witches in Switzerland and German. (Excerpts) Forthcoming in: The Dirty Goat, 2011.