Weronika Zimna asked Cornelia Funke:

Hi! :) First of all - a very big thank you. You totally made my childhood and you're one of the reasons (probably the second one, just behind my mom) for which I started loving books. Well, I'm a bit older now and I still enjoy your work very much. Now - the question - when did you start writing? Did you like it as a kid? Oh, I have one more - will you ever come back to the characters from the "Inkworld" trilogy?

Cornelia Funke Hi:)
First question:
I was quite old when I started writing (except for one short story at 17 which is luckily lost) I was 28, when I was so bored by the stories I received as an illustrator, that I decided to write my own stories. The writing became more and more important and finally pushed the illustrator aside. She is coming back very strongly though:)
2nd question:
No, I was not at all a writing kid. I was the one sketching all the time:)
3rd question
Yes, I am currently writing a story set five years after Inkdeath:)

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