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name: Hanna Jansen
about: I was born in Diepholz, Germany, in 1946.Twenty years I worked as a teacher of art, German language and literature and wrote lesson units and texts for a large textbook publisher.My first novel for young people was published in 2000, followed by three novels for children and young adults, as well as a long narrative for an anthology of world religions. My books have been translated into several languages and my novel "Over a thousand hills I walk with you" about the genocide in Rwanda received an important German children's book prize, the Buxtehuder Bulle. It is now published in the United States.I live with my husband and twelve children from all over the world - most of them African orphans - in Siegburg near Cologne. I was born in Diepholz, Germany, in 1946.Twenty years I worked as a teacher of art, German language and literature and wrote lesson units and texts for a large textbook publisher.My first novel for young people was published in 2000, followed by three novels for children and young adults, as well as a long narrative for an anthology of world religions. My books have been translated into several languages and my novel "Over a thousand hills I walk with you" about the genocide in Rwanda received an important German children's book prize, the Buxtehuder Bulle. It is now published in the United States.I live with my husband and twelve children from all over the world - most of them African orphans - in Siegburg near Cologne. ...more