German children's author Janosch has died at the age of 95.
The German artist Janosch, born Horst Eckert in Zabrze, Poland, on March 11, 1931, died at age 95 in Tenerife.
- Janosch died at the age of 95 on Tenerife.
- Janosch was born as Horst Eckert in 1931.
- Janosch wrote more than 150 books.
- Janosch achieved a breakthrough with 'Oh, how beautiful is Panama' 18 years later.
- Janosch's childhood was described as hell.
- Janosch moved to the Canary Island of Tenerife in the early 1980s.
- He entertained readers with illustrated books since the 1970s.
- Janosch was honored with the German Youth Literature Prize in 1979.
- The work "Oh, wie schön ist Panama" sold more than two million times worldwide since its first appearance in 1978.
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