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Celebrity Gardener - Shane Gould
Don and the Burke's Backyard team travelled to Margaret River, in Western Australia, to meet this week's celebrity gardener, Olympic champion swimmer, Shane Gould. At the 1972 Munich Olympics Shane won 5 individual medals - 3 gold, 1 silver and 1 ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Elke Schmitter
Elke Schmitter, born in 1961 in Krefeld, Germany, studied philosophy in Munich. An international sensation, Elke Schmitter's explosive debut novel presents a modern-day twist on Margarethe can remember very clearly the last time she was happy: ... [... more]
Random House |
Benjamin Lebert
Benjamin Lebert was born in Freiburg in 1982 and has lived in Munich since he was eight. He writes articles for the young-adult supplement of the Saddeutsche Zeitung, Munich's leading newspaper. A smart, funny, poignant, very modern ... [... more]
Random House |
Mortiz Boerner
Moritz Boerner, born 1945, is a movie maker, journalist, author, therapist, artist and programmer. He first became acquainted with Byron Katie at a workshop in Munich and he has since accompanied her and observed her work. His most important ... [... more]
Random House |
John Jerome
John Jerome started to run in 1972, inspired by Frank Shorter's performance in the marathon at the Munich Olympics, and by Shorter's carbohydrate-loading diet. Along the way, he became fascinated with the science of athletic training and has ... [... more]
Random House |
Vladimir Voinovich
Vladimir Voinovich is also the author of Pretender to the Throne: The Further Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, The Fur Hat, Moscow 2042, The Anti-Soviet Soviet Union, The Ivankiad, and In Plain Russian: Stories. He lives in Munich. From ... [... more]
Random House |
Leonie Swann
Leonie Swann earned degrees in philosophy, psychology, and communications from Munich University and has worked in journalism and public relations. Currently working on her doctorate in English literature, she lives in Berlin. A witty ... [... more]
Random House |
Aaron J. Klein
The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response The first full account, based on access to key players who have never before spoken, of the Munich Massacre and the Israeli response-a lethal, top secret, thirty-year-long ... [... more]
Random House |
Daniel Kehlmann
Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich and attended a Jesuit college in Vienna, where he still lives. He has received major awards for his work, most recently the 2005 Candide Award. He was the writer-in-residence New York University's Deutsches Haus ... [... more]
Random House |
Billie Livingston
Billie Livingston is a fiction writer, poet and sometime essayist who lives in Vancouver, B.C. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, she grew up in Toronto and Vancouver, and has since lived in Tokyo, Hamburg, Munich and London, England. Her first ... [... more]
Random House |
Mina Hepsen
Hande Zapsu who writes as Mina Hepsen, was born in Istanbul, Turkey. Growing up between Munich and Istanbul, she was influenced by her father (a Turkish politician) and went on to Boston where she did a B.A. in Political Science and Political ... [... more]
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