James Krüss
personal-info
known-for
Writing
gender
Male
birthday
1926-05-31
place-of-birth
Helgoland, Germany
also-known-as
James Jacob Hinrich Krüss
Markus Polder
Felix Ritter
biography
James Krüss (31 May 1926 – 2 August 1997) was a German writer of children's and picture books, illustrator, poet, dramatist, scriptwriter, translator, and collector of children's poems and folk songs. For his contribution as a children's writer he received the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1968.