Dirk Reinhardt and Rachel Ward

Dirk Reinhardt, born in 1963, studied German and history before becoming a freelance journalist and starting to write books for children and young adults. In this episode, he talks with Nikki Gamble about the background to his novel the Edelweiss Pirates and his reasons for writing it. The novel's translator Rachel Ward assists with interpretation. About Edelweiss Pirates When sixteen-year-old Daniel befriends Josef Gerlach, he has a feeling the old man is keeping something from him, and ...