Doris Orgel

Doris organ, a native Adelberg (* February 15, 1929 in Vienna, Austria ) is an American writer and translator.

Life

Doris organ, a native Adelberg, grew up in Vienna and had to go to the Anschluss their school leaving and a Jewish visit before she fled with her parents Erna and Ernst and sister in 1938 to Yugoslavia, where the family for seven months lived in Zagreb. Then they fled to England in 1939 and finally in 1940 to New York City. After a long stay in St. Louis, the family lived from 1941 back in New York. There she attended Hunter High School. From 1946 to 1948 she studied at Radcliffe College and from 1948 to 1950 at Barnard College. Before she made her debut in 1963 with Grandma 's Holidays and Sarah 's Room as a writer, she worked for five years in the publishing industry, where she translated works by Hauff, Grimm, Brentano and Storm and published.

After her debut in 1963 Organ wrote over 40 children's books and picture books, isolated together with Emily Coplon and Ellen Schecter. Five of her works were published in German language. Your 1978 published children's book The devil in Vienna two years later became a blue and a green balloon published under the title in German language and filmed under the title A Friendship in Vienna in 1988 by Disney. Besides several literary awards, it was recognized in 1998 with the Youth Literature Prize Phoenix Award.

The subsequent analyst Shelley organ she married in 1949., With whom she has three children, two sons and a daughter.

Works

• Grandma's Holidays ( 1963, when Doris Adelberg )
• Sarah 's Room (1963 ) Sarah's Room, Zurich, 1970, Diogenes Verlag

• Nina and the Turtle, Reinbek 1972, Carlsen Verlag, ISBN 3-551-53122-6

• A blue and a green balloon, Munich 1980, Bertelsmann, ISBN 3-570-06370-4

• My quarrel with Mrs. Gallo and how everything was well again, Frankfurt / Main 1992, Sauerland, ISBN 3-7941-3368-4

• My one and only for ever and ever, Frankfurt / Main, Sauerland, ISBN 3-7941-3606-3