Ulf Nilsson (author)
Swedish children's and youth writer

Ulf Nilsson (author)

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Swedish children's and youth writer
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Introduction

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.

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