Fairy Tales Authors
Charles Perrault: He was born in Paris on January 12, 1628, and died on May 16, 1703.
His most famous writings are:
Sleeping Beauty – Sleeping Beauty
Bluebeard
Diamonds and Toads
Patient Griselda
The Ridiculous Wishes
Donkeyskin
Grimm Brothers: Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm is born January 4, 1785, in Hanau, Germany. Wilhelm Carl Grimm is born February 24, 1786, in Hanau, Germany.
Some of the stories they wrote are:
Cinderella
Little Briar-Rose
Little Red-Cap
Little Snow-White
The Seven Ravens
The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids
Sleeping Beauty
Hans in Luck
Jorinda and Joringel
The Star Talers
The Elves
Hans Christian Andersen:(April 2, 1805 – August 4, 1875) was a Danish author and poet, most famous for his fairy tales.
Among his best-known stories are:
The Steadfast
Thumbelina
The Red Shoes
Alexander Afanasyev: (Rusia: July 11, 1826 — October 23, 1871 ) He was a Rusian folklorist who recorded and published over 600 Russian folktales and fairytales:
Some of his tales are:
The Animals in the Pit
The Cat, The Rooster, and the Fox
The Wolf and the Goat
The Swan-Geese
The Three Kingdoms
Prince Ivan and Princess Martha
Baba-Yaga and Puny
Carlo Lorenzini:(November 24, 1826 – October 26, 1890), better known as Carlo Collodi, was a Florentine children’s writer known for the world-renowned fairy taleThe Adventures of Pinocchio.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson: (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known as Lewis Carroll.
His most famous writings are: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems “The Hunting of the Snark” and “Jabberwocky”, all considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense.
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