Quick facts for kids
Annika Thor
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July 2, 1950
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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 into Jewish family in Gothenburg. She has worked as a librarian, a novelist, screenwriter 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.
She wrote a novel about Jewish children who escaped the Holocaust to live on an island in Sweden. This is called Faraway Island 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 trans
- 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 (Öppet hav)
- Lighthouse and the Stars (Fyr och stjärnor)
- Truth or Dare (Sanning eller konsekvens)
- If Not Now, When? (Om inte nu så när?)
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August Prize for Best Children and Young Adult Literature
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- 2010: Här ligger jag och blöder – Jenny Jägerfeld
- 2011: Pojkarna – Jessica Schiefauer
- 2012: ABC å allt om det – Nina Ulmaja
- 2013: Snöret, fågeln och jag – Ellen Karlsson & Eva Lindström
- 2014: Mördarens apa]] – Jakob Wegelius
- 2015: När hundarna kommer – Jessica Schiefauer
- 2016: Tio över ett - Ann-Helén Laestadius
- 2017: Fågeln i mig flyger vart den vill - Sara Lunberg
- 2018: Gropen - Emma Adbåge
- 2019: Vänta på vind - Oskar Kroon
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- 2020: Humlan Hanssons hemligheter - Kristina Sigunsdotter & Ester Eriksson
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Guldbagge Award for Best Screenplay
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- Bengt Danneborn & Lennart Persson (1988)
- Stig Larsson & Åke Sandgren (1989)
- Kjell Grede (1990)
- Clas Lindberg (1991)
- Ingmar Bergman (1992)
- Daniel Alfredson & Jonas Cornell (1993)
- Peter Dalle & Rolf Börjlind (1994)
- Jonas Gardell (1995)
- Per Olov Enquist (1996)
- Annika Thor (1997)
- Lukas Moodysson (1998)
- Ulf Stark (1999)
- Roy Andersson (2000)
- Hans Gunnarsson & Mikael Håfström (2001)
- Lukas Moodysson (2002)
- Björn Runge (2003)
- Maria Blom (2004)
- Lena Einhorn (2005)
- Hans Renhäll & Ylva Gustavsson (2006)
- Roy Andersson (2007)
- John Ajvide Lindqvist (2008)
- Ulf Malmros (2009)
- Lisa Langseth (2010)
- Josefine Adolfsson & Lisa Aschan (2011)
- Gabriela Pichler (2012)
- Anna Odell (2013)
- Ruben Östlund (2014)
- Peter Grönlund (2015)
- Johannes Nyholm (2016)
- Amanda Kernell (2017)
- Peter Grönlund (2018)
- Levan Akin (2019)
- Uje Brandelius (2020)
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List of Astrid Lindgren Prize winners
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