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Home— Munich, Germany. Author and translator. Has held a variety of jobs including working on an Israeli Kibbutz and running a jeans store. Halinka children's book , translated by Elizabeth D. Also author of books including Bitter Chocolate and Stolperschritte. Contributor to periodicals. Born in Darmstadt, Germany, author and translator Mirjam Pressler spent part of her childhood in a group foster home, a hardship that is reflected in her writing.

Many of Pressler's books are about children facing great difficulties and trials of the spirit, and not all of them provide the comfort of a happy ending.

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In a speech later published in Bookbird, Pressler stated that "there are people who, for biographical reasons, cannot get over their childhood. Maybe only the unhappy childhoods leave behind such feelings, which influence the whole life. Pressler has been involved with several books relating to Holocaust victim Anne Frank, including the definitive edition of The Diary of a Young Girl, on which Pressler worked with Otto Frank to restore the numerous entries and clips that had been edited out when the volume was first published.

In the Bookbird speech, Pressler noted that "Anne Frank has not only become the symbol for the Jewish people murdered during the Second World War; her diary is above all the description of puberty, and a more open and honest description I have never read.