Cornelia Funke and Pierre Jarawan at the Blue Metropolis Festival

Cornelia Funke and Pierre Jarawan © Marvin Ruppert, Cornelia Funke

​Blue Metropolis Foundation :

Blue Metropolis is a charity organization whose mission is to bring together people of different languages and diverse cultural backgrounds sharing the pleasure of reading and writing. It thus allows the emergence of creativity and intercultural understanding. The Foundation produces an annual International Literature Festival and offers a wide range of educational and social programs year-round, both in classrooms and online. Reading and writing are used as therapeutic tools within the program to encourage academic perseverance, and fight against poverty and social isolation.
 

Pierre Jarawan Pierre Jarawan | © Marvin Ruppert Pierre jarawan

Pierre Jarawan was born in 1985 to a Lebanese father and a German mother and moved to Germany with his family at the age of three. Inspired by his father’s imaginative bedtime stories, he started writing at the age of thirteen. He has won international prizes as a slam poet, and in 2016 was named Literature Star of the Year by the daily newspaper Abendzeitung. Jarawan received a literary scholarship from the City of Munich (the Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis) for The Storyteller, which went on to become a bestseller and booksellers’ favorite in Germany and the Netherlands.
 

Cornelia Funke Cornelia Funke | © Cornelia Funke Cornelia Funke

Cornelia Funke is a storyteller and illustrator. She is published all over the world in so many languages, that she feels sometimes as if she got lost in her own stories. She is German but lives in Malibu, CA - and in all the worlds she explores with her readers.

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