Heike Brandt (born 1947) is a German writer and translator of books for children, who has translated over 70 books from English to German. [1]
Heike Brandt (born 1947) is a German writer and translator of books for children, who has translated over 70 books from English to German. [1]
Heike Brandt was born in Jever and grew up in Berlin. She lives in Berlin-Kreuzberg. [2]
Aside from translation, her first book was a biography of the feminist and writer Hedwig Dohm. After Brandt had translated several children's books by Elizabeth Honey, the pair directly collaborated to write To the boy in Berlin (2007).
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