The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales


Zwerger, Lisbeth

Zwerger, Lisbeth (1954– ),
Austrian illustrator, who has achieved international fame with her fine ink‐and‐wash drawings for classical fairy tales. Among her notable picturebooks are: E. T. A. Hoffmann, The Strange Child (1977), Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Hansel and Gretel (1979), Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd (1982), Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Little Red Riding Hood (1983), Oscar Wilde, The Selfish Child (1984), Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale (1991), Wilhelm Hauff, Dwarf Nose (1993), Clemens Brentano, The Legend of Rosepetal (1995), and L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of...

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