Harald Parigger
Harald Parigger, born 1953 in Flensburg, is a German writer. He studied history and German in Würzburg. He became a secondary school teacher and later worked at the House of Bavarian History in Munich. He has written a number of academic essays, poems, plays, short stories and historical novels, mainly for children and young people. His novels include "Im Schatten des schwarzen Todes" (English- "In the shadow of the black death"), "Der schwarze Mönch" and "Der Rubin des Königs".