Peter Pohl

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Peter Pohl (Hamburg, Germany, 5 December 1940) is a Swedish author, mainly of youth literature. As of 2005, he has written 25 books. 2 of those have been translated into English, 13 have been translated in a total number of 13 languages. Pohl's themes are sad: themes like death, bullying, loneliness are often part of his books, and almost none of his books have a happy ending. Many of his books have autobiographical elements, especially the rainbow-series. For many books, it is not clear whether those are youth books or adult books. They can be found in both sections of libraries. Most of the books are prose. Some books, like Vill dig and Minns det are poetic. Others, like Tillsammans kan vi förändra världen, are very difficult to place in a category.

1 Biography
2 Bibliography
- 2.1 Number of translations per language
3 Sources and further reading

[edit] Biography

Peter Pohl was born in 1940 in Germany. His father died in World War II. After the war, Pohl and his mother moved to Sweden, where he started at school in 1947. After the fourth class he left his first school in order to go to the Södra Latin gymnasium in Stockholm, where he finished his exam with good marks eight years later. Besides school, Pohl was a runner and when he is fifteen years old also a youth leader at the summercamp of Södra Latin. The experiences here were very important for his many of his books.

In 1975, Pohl graduated and became a professor in Numerical analysis. Five years later he started filming, and with success: he won various prizes for his work. His writing career started in 1983 and two years later he published his first and most successful book: Johnny, My Friend. Meanwhile, the texts for Regnbågen har bara åtta färger and Vi kallar honom Anna were already ready. The latter was initially published as an adult book but received little attention. Because these books are for a great deal about his own life, this was disappointing for Pohl.

[edit] Bibliography

**Books by Peter Pohl, as of 2004**
Year	Swedish	German	Danish	Norwegian	Other languages
1985	Janne, min vän	Jan, mein Freund (1990)	Min bedste ven (1987)	Janne min venn (1988)	Dutch: Jan, mijn vriend (1991), English: Johnny, My Friend (1991) (trans. Laurie Thompson), French: Jan, mon ami (1995), Italian: Il mio amico Jan (1996), Estonian: Janne, mu sõber (1997), Japanese: 『ヤンネ、ぼくの友だち』 (?) (1997), Icelandic: Janni vinur minn (1997), Low German: Jan, mien Fründ (2000)
1986	Regnbågen har bara åtta färger¹	Der Regenbogen hat nur acht Farben (1993)	no	no	Dutch: De regenboog heeft maar acht kleuren (1995)
1987	Vi kallar honom Anna¹	Nennen wir ihn Anna (1991)	Vi kalder ham Anna (1989)	Vi kaller ham Anna (1989)	Dutch: We noemen hem Anna (1993)
1988	Havet inom oss	no translations available
1988	Alltid den där Anette!	no translations available
1989	De Stora Penslarnas Lek¹	no translations available
1989	Medan regnbågen bleknar¹	Während der Regenbogen verblasst (1994)	no	Mens regnbuen blekner (1991)	no
1990	Kan ingen hjälpa Anette?	no translations available
1991	Malins kung Gurra	Ich bin Malin (1992)	Du må gerne sove i min hånd (1993)	Malin og Kong Gurra (1994)	Estonian: Pärast viimast hoiatust (1999)
1991	Man har ett snärj	no translations available
1992	Glittras uppdrag	Glittras Auftrag (1997)	no	no	no
1992	Jag saknar dig, jag saknar dig!	Du fehlst mir, du fehlst mir! (1994)	Jeg savner dig, jeg savner dig (1993)	Jeg savner deg, jeg savner deg (1993)	Dutch: Ik mis je, ik mis je! (1994), Finnish: Sinä ja minä ikuisesti (1997), Icelandic: Ég sakna þín (1998), English: I miss you, I miss you! (1999), Slovenian: Pogrešam te, pogrešam te (1999)
1993	En röd sten till Carina	no translations available
1994	Vill dig	no translations available
1994	Vilja växa¹	no translations available
1995	När alla ljuger	no	Når alle lyver (2000)	no	no
1996	Minns det	no translations available
1997	Men jag glömmer dig inte	Aber ich vergesse dich nicht (1998)	Men jeg glemmer dig ikke (1998)	Men jeg glemmer deg aldri (1998)	no
1998	Intet bortom det yttersta	Unter den Blauen Sonne (2002)	Tims historie (1999)	no	no
1998	Klara papper är ett måste¹	no translations available
1998	Tillsammans kan vi förändra världen	no translations available
1999	Man kan inte säga allt	no	Man kan ikke sige alt (2001)	no	Finnish: Valonarkaa (2000)
2000	Jag är kvar hos er	Ich werde immer bei euch sein (2003)	no	no	Estonian: Ma olen ikka teiega (2003)
2002	Tusen kulor	no	Tusind kugler (2004)	no	Polish: Tysiąc kulek (2005)
2005	Sekten	no translations available

¹ Rainbow series

[edit] Number of translations per language

(Swedish): 25
German: 10
Danish: 9
Norwegian: 6
Dutch: 4
Estonian: 3
English, Finnish, Icelandic: 2
French, Italian, Low German, Slovenian, Polish: 1
Total: 13 books have been translated into at least one language. In total, the books have been translated to 13 different languages.