Ulf Stark

Ulf Gottfrid Stark (12 July 1944 – 13 June 2017)[1] was a Swedish author[2] and screenwriter. He adapted several of his own books for movies and wrote the screenplay for the 1999 movie Tsatsiki, morsan och polisen.

Ulf Stark
Ulf Stark in Kyiv (cropped).jpg
Ulf Stark in 2016
Born(1944-07-12)July 12, 1944
Stureby, Stockholm Municipality
DiedJune 13, 2017(2017-06-13) (aged 72)
Stockholm, Sweden
NationalitySwedish
OccupationAuthor

From 1989 to 1998 he was an elected member of the Swedish Academy for Children's Books.[3]

In 1998 he received the Nordic Children's Book Prize.[4]

Stark died 13 June 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden from pancreatic cancer at the age of 72.

References

  1. "Sök personer". Birthday.se. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
  2. "Barncancerfondens nyheter & pressmeddelanden". Barncancerfonden (in svenska). Retrieved 2020-12-07.
  3. "Svenska barnboksakademins tidigare ledamöter" (in svenska). Swedish Academy for Children's Books. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
  4. "Nordisk-skolebibliotekarforening.org". Nordisk-skolebibliotekarforening.org. Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2014-06-25.