As I suppose you aren't really interested in German authors, I'll stick to the English language YA authors whom I read in German translations in the 80s:
Edith Nesbit (especially "Five children and It" and "The Magic City") , Diana Wynne Jones, Margaret Mahy, Lloyd Alexander, CS Lewis (Narnia books), Tamora Pierce, Eva Ibbotson, and Roald Dahl.
These are all fantasy writers. In my opinion fantasy novels tend to "age" better than SF. For YA SF I had quite a few German authors to choose from before I started on the big authors like Asimov, Clarke, Aldiss, Lem... Another author I loved was Jules Verne.
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Date: 2007-10-21 10:40 pm (UTC)Edith Nesbit (especially "Five children and It" and "The Magic City") , Diana Wynne Jones, Margaret Mahy, Lloyd Alexander, CS Lewis (Narnia books), Tamora Pierce, Eva Ibbotson, and Roald Dahl.
These are all fantasy writers. In my opinion fantasy novels tend to "age" better than SF.
For YA SF I had quite a few German authors to choose from before I started on the big authors like Asimov, Clarke, Aldiss, Lem...
Another author I loved was Jules Verne.