Presentation

Biography

Born in 1975

Youngest of four

Sydney, Australia

German and Austrian parents

 

Markus Zusak Writing Style

Themes are color, beauty, and ugliness and death  

Genre are fiction, historical fiction, and Young adult fiction.

His writing shows symbolism, relationships, and foreshadowing.

 

List of books

• The Book Thief
• Bridge of Clay
• The Messenger
• When Dogs Cry
• Fighting Ruben Wolfe
• The Underdog

 

Awards 

The Book Thief

 

 

• • 2006: Kathleen Mitchell Award
  • 2008: Ena Noel Award
  • 2009: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis Award The Messenger

The Messenger

 

 

• • 2003: New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award
  • 2003: Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award
  • 2005: Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year-Children Award
  • 2006: Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book Award
  • 2007: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis

When Dogs Cry

 

 

• • 2002: CBCA Children’s Book of the Year Award: Older Readers

• Fighting Ruben Wolfe

 

 

• • CBCA Children’s Book of the Year Award: Older Readers
  • shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature

 

Why the writing Career

After Markus Zusak’s parents encouraged him to read, he read often. One day while reading he looked up thought  “That’s what I want to do with my life.” He decided to become a writer and that nothing could stop him.

 

Tips for writers – writing advice

• Don’t be afraid to fail
• Use specific detail
• Keep on rewriting until it gets better
• Include details from your own life
• Unexpected gets the most reaction

 

 

Quotation

“The consequence of this is that I’m always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both.”

– Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

 

 

Analysis

In the quote I found a lot of juxtaposition

“The consequence of this is that I’m always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both.”

– Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

 

Emulation

The battlefield. Pain is agony but at the same time its comforting. Knowing that your alive is torture but once your dead its all gone. The heavy bolder is lifted off your shoulders. But its mark ceases