June 12, 2010

Fairy tale authors

Charles Perrault
Born: 12th January 1628, Paris
Death: 16 May 1703
Notable works: Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty - Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots, Cinderella, Bluebeard, Diamonds and Toads, Patient Griselda, The Ridiculous Wishes, Donkeyskin...


Grimm Brothers
Born: Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm- 4th January 1785, Hanau, Germany
Wilhelm Carl Grimm- February 24, 1786, Hanau, Germany.
Notable Works: The Bremen Town-Musicians, Brother and Sister, Cinderella, The Frog King, Hänsel and Grethel, Little Briar-Rose, Little Red-Cap, Little Snow-White, Mother Holle, Rapunzel, The Seven Ravens, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, Tom Thumb, Sleeping Beauty, The Fisherman & His Wife, The Goose Girl, Hans in Luck, Jorinda and Joringel, Rumpelstilzchen, Snow White, The Brave Little Tailor, The Star Talers, The Elves...


Hans Christian Andersen (Danish author and poet)
Born: April 2, 1805 
Death: August 4, 1875
Notable Works: The Steadfast, Tin Soldier, The Snow Queen, The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, The Little Match Girl, The Ugly Duckling, The Red Shoes...


Alexander Afanasyev
Born: July 11, 1826, Russia
Death: October 23, 1871
A Rusian folklorist who recorded and published over 600 Russian folktales and fairytales

Notable Works: The Animals in the Pit, The Cat, The Rooster, and the Fox, The Wolf and the Goat, The Fox and the Crane, The Swan-Geese, The Three Kingdoms, Prince Ivan and Princess Martha, Baba-Yaga and Puny...




Carlo Lorenzini
Born: November 24, 1826
Death: October 26, 1890
Better known as Carlo Collodi, a Florentine children’s writer known for the world-renowned fairy tale The Adventures of Pinocchio.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Born: 27 January 1832
Death: 14 January 1898
Better known as Lewis Carroll.

Notable Works: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems “The Hunting of the Snark” and “Jabberwocky”, all considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense.

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