Annika Thor

Annika Thor
Born July 2, 1950
Gothenburg
Nationality Sweden

Annika Thor (born July 2, 1950) is a Sweden 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 sequels. She has written twenty novels and they have been translated into 18 languages.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Annika Thor, bonniergroupagency.se, retrieved 13 December 2014