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Hanna Jansen
Hanna Jansen Hanna Jansen was born in Diepholz, Germany in 1946.

Her first novel for young people was published in 2000, followed by three novels for children and young adults, as well as a long narrative for an anthology of world religions. Her books have been translated into several languages and her 2002 novel about the genocide in Rwanda, Over a Thousand Hills I Walk With You, received the Buxtehude Bulla. It will be published in the United States in April 2006.

Jansen lives with her husband and 12 children from all over the world—most of them African orphans—in Siegburg near Cologne.
WORLD VOICES EVENTS
Sunday, April 30 at 2:00
Conversation: Hanna Jansen & Tonya Bolden

Sunday, April 30 at 4:00
Suitable for Children
Hanna Jansen: On Faith & Reason
Hanna Jansen: On Faith & Reason There is no reason for believing what lies beyond belief. Believing finds its reason in itself. Faith and Reason are big names. Too often misused to bend wrong to right! >>Read more
Q&A with Hanna Jansen
The story is exemplary of the fate of many children in this world, whom I regard as victims in many respects, because they have no opportunities of their own whatsoever to respond to what is rolling over them. They are not only at the mercy of the criminals but also the adults who should protect them. >>Read more
Jansen Online
www.hannajansen.de

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