1. Cornelia Funke began writing novels in the late 1980s and focused primarily on fantasy-oriented stories that depict the lives of children faced with adversity.
17 Facts About Cornelia Funke
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Cornelia Funke's work has been translated into several languages and, as of 2012, Funke has sold over 20 million copies of her books worldwide.
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Cornelia Funke subsequently achieved wider recognition with the Inkheart series of novels, which include Inkheart, Inkspell, and Inkdeath.
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Cornelia Funke was born in 1958 in the town of Dorsten in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, to Karl-Heinz and Helmi Funke.
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Cornelia Funke had a stint illustrating books, but soon began writing her own stories, inspired by the sorts of stories that had appealed to the deprived children she had worked with.
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Cornelia Funke wrote her first story at the age of 28.
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Cunningham sought out Cornelia Funke and decided to release her novels in English through his newly-formed publishing house, The Chicken House.
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Cornelia Funke found further acclaim Inkheart, which won the 2004 BookSense Book of the Year Award for Children's Literature.
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The trilogy was initially concluded in Inkdeath, but was revived in 2020 when Cornelia Funke announced that a sequel called Die Farbe der Rache will be published by October 2021 in Germany.
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Cornelia Funke moved to Los Angeles in 2005 after she had accepted the offer to participate as the film's producer alongside Barry Mendel.
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In 2010, Cornelia Funke returned with her first book since Inkdeath in 2007, Reckless.
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In 2017, Cornelia Funke published The Book No One Ever Read, the first work written by the author in English, as opposed to being written in German first.
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Cornelia Funke calls the picture book her "Inkheart for kindergartners" and illustrated the book herself.
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On her personal website, Cornelia Funke states that the vital starting point for a good book is an "idea".
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Cornelia Funke is willing to celebrate children for their own strengths, not just their ability to act like adults.
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In 2021, Cornelia Funke then left the United States and moved to Tuscany, Italy.
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Cornelia Funke has been the official patron of the children's hospice Bethel for dying children since February 2010.