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Walter Moers (German: [ˈvaltɐ ˈmøːɐ̯s] ⓘ; born 24 May 1957) [1] is a German comic artist, illustrator and writer. He is the creator of the character of Captain Bluebear and became a best-selling author in Europe with his Zamonia novels.
The City of Dreaming Books (original title: Die Stadt der Träumenden Bücher) is the fourth novel in the Zamonia series written and illustrated by German author Walter Moers, but the third to be translated into English by John Brownjohn. The German version was released in Autumn 2004, and the English version followed in Autumn 2007. [1]
Prinzessin Insomnia & der alptraumfarbene Nachtmahr (transl. Princess Insomnia and the Nightmare-Colored Night-mare or Princess Insomnia and the Nightmare-Colored Chimera) is the sixth novel in the Zamonia series written by German author Walter Moers. It is the first Zamonian novel that was not illustrated by the author himself but by the ...
The 13 1 ⁄ 2 Lives of Captain Bluebear follows the adventures of the character Bluebear in the first half of his 27 lives. The novel intersperses Bluebear's narrative with excerpts from The Encyclopedia of Marvels, Life Forms and Other Phenomena of Zamonia and its Environs by Professor Abdullah Nightingale, who bacterially transmits it into Bluebear's brain.
The events of this novel take place on the fictional continent of Zamonia, which is also featured in Moers' previous novel The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear. While Rumo is not a prequel to Bluebear, the two do have many parallel events and returning characters such as Volzotan Smyke, Professor Nightingale, and Fredda the Alpine Imp. There is ...
The Alchemaster's Apprentice is a fantasy novel by Walter Moers, first published in August 2007.It is the fifth of his novels set on the continent of Zamonia, and as in the earlier Ensel and Krete and The City of Dreaming Books, Moers purports to be acting merely as the translator of a work by the Zamonian writer Optimus Yarnspinner.
In 1999, Captain Bluebear simultaneously appeared in a made-for-television feature film and in The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear, Walter Moers' first fantasy novel.The novel reveals that Bluebear is a Chromobear (Buntbär) and thus belongs to a fictional race of ursines who inhabit the continent of Zamonia, which became a regular setting for most of Moers' fantasy novels.
A Wild Ride Through the Night (German: Wilde Reise durch die Nacht) is a novel by the German author/cartoonist Walter Moers. It was first published in German in 2001 and is the story of Gustave Doré, a young boy who goes on a fantastical adventure to defy Death. The story is based on 12 engravings by Gustave Doré. [1]