Iva Procházková was born in 1953 in the Czech Republic and when she was ten her family moved to Germany. She has been writing books for children and young adults for many years and has won Germany’s most important prize for children’s literature, the Deutsche Jugendliteraturpreis, and has also been nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Medaille. ‘It’s Iva Procházková’s dancing between the abyss, the level, and the giddy heights that makes her stories so pleasurable’ – Süddeutsche Zeitung Previous works include: Carolina – Ein knapper Lebenslauf (1999); Elias und die Oma aus dem Ei (2003) – both Sauerländer Verlag. Translation rights available from: Sauerländer Verlag/Patmos Am Wehrhahn 100 40031 Düsseldorf, Germany Tel: +49 211 16795-72 E-mail: mundt@patmos.de Contact: Anja Mundt Applications for assistance with translation costs - Germany Translated editions of her work published by: Carolina – Lemniscaat (The Netherlands); Lóguez Ediciones (Spain). Elias und die Oma aus dem Ei – Ollin Publishing (complex Chinese); Borim Publishing (Korean); Editorial Norma (Spanish edition – South America & Puerto Rico); Amarin Publishing (Thai) Sauerländer Verlag was founded in 1807 in Switzerland by the Sauerländer family. It has been under the auspices of Patmos Verlag, Germany, since 2002. The list features high quality children’s and young adult works from picture and activity books to fiction and nonfiction. The extensive backlist contains classics by Jörg Müller, Kurt Held, Lisa Tetzner, and Christine Nöstlinger, among many others.