Markus Zusak was born on June 23, 1975 and is the author of five books, including the international bestseller, The Book Thief, which is translated into more than forty languages.
First released in 2005, The Book Thief has spent more than a decade on the New York Times bestseller list, and still remains there to this day. His first three books, The Underdog, Fighting Ruben Wolfe and When Dogs Cry(also known as Getting the Girl), released between 1999 and 2001, were all published internationally and garnered a number of awards and honours in his native Australia, and the USA.
The Messenger (or I am the Messenger), published in 2002, won the 2003 Australian Children’s Book Council Book of the Year Award (Older Readers) and the 2003 NSW Premier’s Literary Award (Ethel Turner Prize), as well as receiving a Printz Honour in America. It also won numerous national readers choice awards across Europe, including the highly regarded Deutscher Jugendliteratur prize in Germany, which he won again for The Book Thief in 2010.

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