Zoran Drvenkar was born in Krizevci in Croatia in 1967 and moved to Berlin with his parents at the age of three. He has been a writer since 1989, and his novels, poems, plays and short stories have won him numerous awards and prizes. Zoran Drvenkar currently still lives in Berlin.

Photo: © C. Bernburg

Awards:

• 1999 Oldenburg Children’s Literature Prize for „Niemand so stark wie wir“
• 2000 LUCHS 162 award for „Im Regen stehen“
• 2001 Berlin Festival Science Fiction Prize for “Die alte Stadt”
• 2001 Munich Youth Drama Prize for “Traumpaar”
• 2001 Würth Prize for Literature
• 2001 La vache qui lit (also known as the Zurich Children’s Literature Prize)
• 2002 LUCHS 183 award for “Cengiz & Locke”
• 2002 North Rhine-Westfalia Children’s Literature Prize for „Der einzige Vogel, der die Kälte nicht fürchtet“
• 2003 Jury of Young Readers’ Special Prize
• 2003 Hansjörg Martin Prize at the 2003 ‘Criminale’ festival for “Cengiz & Locke”
• 2004 Wetzlar Fantasy Literature Prize for „Sag mir, was du siehst“
• 2004 ‘Goldener Lufti’ Prize for „Sag mir, was du siehst“
• 2004 ‘Hans-im-Glück’ Prize for “Cengiz & Locke”
• 2004 German Children’s Literature Prize for “Fuchs” (translation of Fox by Margaret Wild)
• 2004 Baden-Württemberg Children’s Theatre Prize for „Traumpaar“
• 2005 ‘Kröte’ of the Month (December) for „Die Nacht, in der meine Schwester den Weihnachtsmann entführte“
• 2005 German Children’s Literature Prize for “Die Kurzhosengang” (written under the pseudonym ‘Victor Caspak & Yves Lanois’)
• 2006 LUCHS 227 award for „Die Nacht, in der meine Schwester den Weihnachtsmann entführte“
• 2006 Silver Lola in the German Film Awards for “Knallhart”