Ulf Stark

Swedish writer (1944-2017)

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 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

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  1. "Sök personer". Birthday.se. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
  2. "Barncancerfondens nyheter & pressmeddelanden". Barncancerfonden (in Swedish). Retrieved 2020-12-07.
  3. "Svenska barnboksakademins tidigare ledamöter" (in Swedish). 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.