Cornelia Funke
“Dragon Rider” saga continues in October
“Drachenreiter. The Curse of Aurelia” by Cornelia Funke will appear on October 8, 2021.
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In 1997 the author Cornelia Funke started her popular “Drachenreiter” series. The third volume of the saga is due to appear in October.
For “Drachenreiter” fans, the long wait will soon be over: Cornelia Funke (62) will publish the third part of the fantasy series “Drachenreiter. The Curse of Aurelia” on October 8, 2021. The Hamburg Dressler Verlag has now confirmed this. Accordingly, the author should read two chapters of her new novel to her fans in an online reading on May 30th.
“Linguistically elegant and lovingly told”
“This time, the dragon rider Ben is fighting to save all the mythical beasts. Cornelia Funke takes us on an exciting journey into a fantastic underwater world, narrated in an elegant and loving manner, right down to the smallest figure,” says Julia Bielenberg, CEO Dressler, about the third part of the saga announce.
The first volume in the “Drachenreiter” series was published in 1997. It has sold over 700,000 copies worldwide and is therefore one of Funke’s most successful works. Even in the United States, the writer made it to number one on the New York Times bestseller list.