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Children's author Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende was born on November 12, 1929 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. He worked as an actor, director, film critic and scriptwriter before turning to writing children's books. He was the only child of the surrealist painter Edgar Ende. His best known work is The Neverending Story (1979), which was adapted into a film and two sequels. Another book, Jim Knopf and Lukas the Engine, was made into both a television and radio series. Ende died in Germany on August 29, 1995. Michael Ende nació en Alemania en 1929. Para el memorable autor de La historia interminable, “la fantasía no es una forma de evadirse de la realidad, sino un modo más agradable de acercarse a ella”. Figura en la Lista de Honor del IBBY desde el año 1974, lo que le otorga un reconocimiento universal.