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Vol. 23 No. 14 · 19 July 2001
pages 27-28 | 2956 words
Little Goldbug
Iain Bamforth
Tomi Ungerer is a household name in the German-speaking world – at least in that portion of it which raises 1.6 children. He has published 120 books, many of them for children; in 1997 he won the Hans Christian Andersen Prize. He was born into a famous family of clockmakers in 1931, and raised in a suburb of Colmar, one of those idyllic medieval towns on the Rhine that seem lost to time.
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Letters
Vol. 23 No. 15 · 9 August 2001
From Patrick Hughes
'Expect the unexpected,' Iain Bamforth tells us (LRB, 19 July), is Tomi Ungerer's slogan 'and dates back to the 1960s'. In fact it belongs to Heraclitus, and dates back to the 69th Olympiad, about 504 to 500 bc.
Patrick Hughes
London EC2
