Ulf Nilsson (author)

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Occupation writer Genre children-youth Awards August Prize Period 1979– Movies Lilla syster kanin		Nationality Swedish Role Writer Language Swedish Name Ulf Nilsson

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Ulf Nilsson (born in Helsingborg in 1948), is an award-winning Swedish writer who has published more than 100 books and picture books, geared mainly to children and adolescents. He is also the long-running president of the Swedish Academy for Children's Books.

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Books

1979 – Pojkjävlarna

1982 – Älskade lilla gris

1983 – Lilla syster Kanin (together with Eva Eriksson)

1983 – En kamp för frihet

1985 – If You Didn't Have Me (Swedish: Om ni inte hade mig)

1985 – Den fräcka kråkan

1986 – Boeing 747 (together with Pija Lindenbaum)

1994 – Mästaren och de fyra skrivarna

1996 – En dag med mössens brandkår

2001 – Varg nosar och jagar

1998 – En frälsare är född

2002 – Adjö, herr Muffin (together with Anna-Clara Tidholm)

2004 – En ängel vid din sida

2005 – En halv tusenlapp (together with Filippa Widlund)

2005 – Liten mus trycker på knappar

2006 – Den döde talar

2006 – Lilla syster kanin går alldeles vilse

2006 – Alla döda små djur

2007 – Ensam bland rävar

English translations

2015 – Detective Gordon: The First Case, 96pp., ISBN 978-1-927271-69-8

2016 – Detective Gordon: A Complicated Case, 96pp., ISBN 978-1-776570-65-2

Awards

Nilsson has received the August Prize (Augustpriset) twice, the only writer for children and young adults to have been so recognized, and a distinction he shares with only four other writers for readers of any age.

1983 – BMF-plaketten (jointly with illustrator Eva Eriksson) for Lilla syster kanin

1984 – Nils Holgersson-plaketten for Lilla syster Kanin and En kamp för frihet

1985 – Expressens Heffaklump for Om ni inte hade mig and Den fräcka kråkan

1994 – Augustpriset for Mästaren och de fyra skrivarna

2002 – Augustpriset for Adjö, herr Muffin

2002 – BMF-plaketten

2002 – Bokjuryn (category 0–6 years)

2006 – The Astrid Lindgren Prize for his authorship of child and youth literature

2010 – Schullströmska prize for Children's Literature

References

Ulf Nilsson (author) Wikipedia

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