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Renate Welsh was born in 1937 in Vienna. She spent her childhood in a suburb of Vienna, where her father was a doctor. After graduating from high school, she studied English, Spanish, and literary studies, but dropped out after two years and worked at the British Council in Vienna. In addition to her job, she later worked as a freelance translator. Since 1969, she has written many dedicated children's and youth books, for which she has received numerous awards, including multiple times the Austrian State Prize for Children's Literature, the City of Vienna Prize, and the German Youth Literature Prize. In 1995, her entire body of work was honored with the Austrian Recognition Award.