Maar, Paul
Maar, Paul (1937– ),German author, translator, and illustrator of children's books for all ages who also scripts plays for radio, theatre, film, and television. Maar has created the libretto for an opera and musicals and designed sets for the theatre. He had great success with his first book, Der tätowierte Hund (The Tattooed Dog, 1968), a tale about bad Hansel and Gretel and the good witch. But by far his most popular fictional creation is the ‘Sams’, an uppity fantastic creature with blue spots who represents Mr Taschenbier's suppressed ego in Eine Woche voller Samstage (A Week Full of Saturdays, 1973), Am Samstag kam das Sams zurück (Sams Returned on Saturday, 1980), and Neue Punkte für das Sams (New Spots for Sams, 1992). In 1996 Maar was awarded the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German Prize for Children's and Youth Literature) for the...
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