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"I cannot give you MW. ans. but stand by your questions."
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Renate Welsh is one of the most complex and versable authors of books for young people in Austria today. She was born in 1937 and has been writing for children for thirty years already, developing her writing skills, enlarging her themes, and getting closer to the psychology of contemporary children and young people with each successive book. Author of more than fifty books, Welsh writes for all ages, but her preferred age group are the young people and very often her protagonists are socially disadvantaged or marginalized young people. She manages to create realistic works on important subjects and problems in a persuasive literary way. Sensitive to details, Renate Welsh uses minutiae to build...