Annika Thor
| Annika Thor | |
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July 2, 1950 Gothenburg |
| Nationality | Sweden |
Annika Thor (born July 2, 1950) is a Swedish author and screenwriter from Sweden who has won the August Prize for Truth or Dare in 1997.
Life
Thor was born in Gothenburg in 1950. She has worked as a librarian, a novelist, screen writer and as a journalist. She has won the August Prize for the children's story Truth or Dare in 1997 and the German state award for children's fiction (Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis) also for A Faraway Island in 1999.[1]
She wrote a novel about Jewish children who escaped the Holocaust to live on an island in Sweden. This is called A Faraway Land in English and Thor has written three sequels, Lily Pond, Deep Sea and Open Sea. She has written 15 books for children and teenagers, and three books for adults and they have been translated into 17 languages. Her most recent novel for adults, Om inte nu så när? (If not now, when?), appeared in 2011. [1]
Books
Faraway Island (En ö i havet), translated from the Swedish by Linda Schenck in 2009, published by Random House in 2009
Lily Pond (Näckrosdammen), translated from the Swedish by Linda Schenck in 2011
Deep Sea (Havets djup), translated from the Swedish by Linda Schenck in 2015
Open Sea (Oppet hav)
Lighthouse and the Stars (Fyr och stjärnor)
Truth or Dare
If Not Now, When? (Om inte nu så när?)[2]
References
- 1 2 Annika Thor, bonniergroupagency.se, retrieved 13 December 2014
- ↑ https://annikathor.wordpress.com/in-english/