Enid Blyton

Enid Blyton

Enid Blyton (born August 11, 1897 - died 28 November 1968 at age 71 years) is an author of children's story book a popular British. His works have been translated into various languages in the world, including in the Indonesian language, published by PT. Gramedia Pustaka Utama. He is one of the children's book authors of the most famous in the 20th century.

He has written many children's stories based on a variety of characters from a variety of ages. His work successfully anywhere in the world, and has sold more than 400 million copies. Surely, he was included in the Six World's Most Popular Author, translated more than 3400 languages, and was listed in UNESCO's translation of data.

One of the famous character Noddy, intended for readers who are still early stage, or the children aged 4-7 years. However, the main readers of the book are children who do not need guidance in reading to get into the adventure that was created by him. In this group of readers, many books are very popular series in the world, including the Famous Five (consisting of 21 books, 1942-1963, based on the story of four children and a dog), Force Want to Know (consisting of 15 books, 1943-1961, where the five children who were often in trouble with ebrlibur local police), as well as the Sapta Standby (consisting of 15 books, 1949-1bercerita of seven children who solve various mysteries).

The results of his work consisted of adventure stories, fantasy, and sometimes involving magic.