What is Jürg Schubiger?
[[File:Jürg Schubiger, März 2014.jpg|thumb|Schubiger in March 2014.]] '''Jürg Schubiger''' (14 October 1936 &ndash; 15 September 2014) was a [[Swiss people|Swiss]] [[Children's literature|children's]] [[writer]] and [[psychologist]]. In 1996, for his work on ''Als die Welt noch jung war'', he won the [[Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis]] (German Youth Literature Award). He was also the biennial [[Hans Christian Andersen Medal]] in 2008 for his work on children's books. He wrote around thirty books between 1956 and 2010. He also wrote [[prose]] [[novel]]s. Schubiger was born in [[Zürich]] and raised in [[Winterthur]]. He graduated from the [[University of Zürich]]. He was married to Renate Bänninger Schubiger. The couple had two sons. Schubiger died after a long illness on 15 September 2014 in Zürich. He was 77.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/buecher/schweizer-schriftsteller-juerg-schubiger-ist-tot-1.18385001|title=Schweizer Schriftsteller Jürg Schubiger ist tot|work=[[Neue Zürcher Zeitung]]|date=16 September 2014|accessdate=19 September 2014|language=German}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category}} * {{Official|http://lyrikline.wordpress.com/category/jurg-schubiger/}} {{Small|{{in lang|de}}}} {{Bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Schubiger, Jurg}} [[Category:1936 births]] [[Category:2014 deaths]] [[Category:Children's writers]] [[Category:Scientists from Zürich]] [[Category:People from Winterthur]] [[Category:Swiss psychologists]] [[Category:Swiss writers]]