Henny Koch
German writer
Died when: 70 years 264 days (848 months)Star Sign: Libra
Henny Koch (22 September 1854 – 13 June 1925) was a translator and a German children's author.She was born in Alsfeld, Grand Duchy of Hesse.
From 1898 on, she lived in Jugenheim an der Bergstraße in Hessia, Germany, where she died in 1925.She produced the first German translation of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1890.
Henny Koch wrote 29 books, mainly for young girls.Her books were published in eight countries.Her most successful work was a series of novels, beginning with , in which you can accompany the protagonist through her life as a young girl, a mother and grandmother.
A film has been made based on this novel Il birichino di papà, Italy, 1943, directed by Raffaello Matarazzo with music by Nino Rota.
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