This month we're featuring Markus Frank Zusak, an Australian young-adult fiction writer. He's best known for two international bestsellers. Zusak won the annual Margaret Edwards Award in 2014 for his contribution to young-adult literature published in the US.
He was born on the 23rd of June 1975 in Sydney, Australia. His mother, Lisa, is originally from Germany and his father, Helmut, is from Austria. They emigrated to Australia in the late 1950s. Markus is the youngest of four children, he has two sisters and one brother.
Zusak attended Engadine High School in New South Wales and briefly returned there to teach English while writing. He studied English and History at the University of New South Wales, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma of Education.
He is the author of five books. His first three books: The Underdog, Fighting Ruben Wolfe, and When Dogs Cry released between 1999 and 2001 were all published internationally. They also garnered a number of awards. The Underdog, his first, took 7 years to publish. The Messenger, published in 2002, won the 2003 NSW Premier's Literary Award (Ethel Turner Prize) in Australia and was a runner-up for the Printz Award in America.
The Book Thief, published in 2005, has been translated into more than 30 languages. Beside winning awards in Australia and overseas, it has held the number one position at Amazon.com and on the New York Times bestseller list. It was adapted as a film of the same name in 2013. In 2006, Zusak was the recipient of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Young Australian Novelist of the Year Award. His next novel is reported to be Bridge of Clay. He has two beautiful children with spouse, Mika.
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