Felix Salten: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Siegmund Salzmann
Born	September 6, 1869 • Budapest • Hungary
Died	October 8, 1945 (aged 76) • Zürich • Switzerland
Notable Works	“Bambi” • “Florian, the Emperor’s Stallion”

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Animated scene from Bambi (1942) showing Thumper the rabbit, Flower the skunk, and Bambi the fawn in a forest clearing, with a butterfly perched on Bambi's tail.

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Austrian author

Erich Kästner

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Karl May

German author

Johanna Spyri

Swiss writer

Rainer Maria Rilke

Austrian-German poet

Franz Kafka

German-language writer

Peter Handke

Austrian writer

Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Austrian author

Ingeborg Bachmann

Austrian author

Arthur Schnitzler

Austrian author

Elfriede Jelinek

Austrian author

Adalbert Stifter

Austrian writer

Hermann Broch

Austrian writer

Anatoly Rybakov

Russian author

Thomas Bernhard

Austrian writer

Bertha, baroness von Suttner

Austrian author

Heimito von Doderer

Austrian novelist

Else Lasker-Schüler

German author

Alexander Lernet-Holenia

Austrian writer

Stefan Zweig

Austrian writer

Book Jacket of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by American children's author illustrator Eric Carle (born 1929)

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