biography
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Salten, Felix
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pseudonym of Siegmund Salzmann
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pronunciation:
[sawltn]
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| lived:
| (1869–1945)
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| biography:
| Novelist and essayist, born in Budapest, Hungary. He lived in Vienna, but settled in Switzerland after fleeing from the Nazis. He became a theatre critic, but is known especially for his animal stories, particularly Bambi (1929) which, in translation and filmed by Walt Disney, achieved great popularity in America and Britain. He also wrote Florian, the Emperor's Stallion (1934) and Bambi's Children (1940). |
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