The great Rudyard Kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. 'One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. Ende often found frustration in being perceived as exclusively an author for children, considering himself rather a man intending to speak of cultural problems and spiritual wisdom to people of all ages in his works he wrote in 1985: Ende claimed, 'It is for this child in me, and in all of us, that I tell my stories,' and that ' for any child between 80 and 8 years' (qtd. However, Ende was not strictly a children's author, as he also wrote books for adults. Michael Ende's works have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 20 million copies, and have been adapted into motion pictures, stage plays, operas and audio books.Įnde was one of the most popular and famous German authors of the 20th century, mostly due to the enormous success of his children's books. Other books include Momo and Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer (English title Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver).

He died in Filderstadt (Germany) of stomach cancer.ĭie unendliche Geschichte ( The Neverending Story) is Ende's best known work.

He was born in Garmisch (Bavaria, Germany), son of the surrealist painter Edgar Ende. Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende (12 November 1929 - 28 August 1995) was a German writer of fantasy and children's literature.

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