Cynthia Voigt

Cynthia Voigt ( born February 25, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American children's author.

Life and work

Cynthia Voigt grew up in Connecticut, where she attended the Dana Hall School. In 1963 she received her degree at Smith College in Massachusetts. Then she initially taught in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and later English at a high school in Glen Burie and in Annapolis, Maryland. In 1981 she began to write and was later teaching altogether. Cynthia Voigt lives with her husband and two children on the Deer Isles, Maine.

In addition to individual, independent novels, she created three chronologies:

  • The series The Kingdom, consisting of four books, set in a fictional (not really existing ) Kingdom. The personal stories of the individual characters fit into a medieval political environment and usually have the rebellion of the main character against family or system on the subject.
  • The Tillerman cycle tells of the growth of the four Tillerman children who were abandoned by their mother and are initially quite alone on its own before they stay with their grandmother. Some volumes also act Friends of the Tiller Mans.
  • The third chronology Bad Girls revolves around two girls who make their school unsafe. Only the first volume of this series has been published in German.

Importance and Awards

Cynthia Voigt's work is characterized by a wide range of topics, thought-provoking, and attacks difficult topics such as racism and child abuse on. Even in the fantasy genre attributable Kingdom series aspects such as social injustice and the value of idealism and friendship to a youth appealing and understandable manner will be discussed.

Already her first book Homeward was nominated for several international prizes and made ​​into a film in 1996 for American television. In addition, Cynthia Voigt won the following awards:

Bibliography

Tillerman Cycle

  • Homeward. ( Homecoming, 1981)
  • We Tiller Mans are like that. ( Dicey 's Song, 1982)
  • M is for Melody. The story of Jeff, Dicey Tiller Mans Friend. (A Solitary Blue, 1983)
  • Samuel Tillerman, the runner. ( The Runner, 1985)
  • Mina, Dicey Tiller Mans girlfriend. ( Come a Stranger, 1986)
  • The shadow of his father. James and Sammy Tillerman. ( Sons from Afar, 1987)
  • Dicey Tillerman. Bonds. (Seventeen Against the Dealer, 1989)

UK - cycle

  • Under the mask Jackaroo. ( Jackaroo, 1985)
  • On the Wheel of Fortune. (On Fortune 's Wheel, 1990)
  • In the Shadow of the Hawk. ( The Wings of a Falcon, 1993)
  • Elske. The confidant of the queen. ( Elske, 1999)

Bad Girls

  • Bad Girls ( Bad Girls, 1996)
  • Bad, Badder, Baddest (1997)
  • It's Not Easy Being Bad! (2000)
  • Bad Girls in Love ( 2002)
  • From Bad To Worse (2003)
  • Bad Girls, Bad Girls, Whatcha Gonna Do? (2006)

Other Books

  • Tell Me If the Lovers Are Losers (1982 )
  • The Callender Papers (1983 )
  • Stone by stone. ( Building Blocks, 1984)
  • Friends and friends. ( Izzy, Willy- Nilly, 1986)
  • My island is mine. ( Tree by Leaf, 1988)
  • Glass Mountain (1991 )
  • Can Ivy sneezing? (The Vandemark Mummy, 1991)
  • Orfe (A retelling of the Orpheus myth, 1992)
  • David and Jonathan (1993 )
  • No! ( When She Hollers, 1994)
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