Karl Bruckner

The son of a printer, Bruckner grew up in the Viennese suburb of Ottakring and became a motor mechanic. He began to write in 1946. He travelled widely.

• the City of Vienna Children's Book Prize – 1954 for Giovanna und der Sumpf
• Austrian Children's Book Prize – 1956 for Die Strolche von Neapel
• the City of Vienna Youth Book Prize – 1957 for Der goldene Pharao
• Austrian Children's Book Prize – 1961 for Sadako will leben ('The Day of the Bomb')