Pernilla Nina Elisabeth Wahlgren is a Swedish singer and actress. She has sung in Melodifestivalen several times; her 1985 entry titled "Piccadilly Circus" became popular and successful. She has acted in several plays and films, playing roles including Esmeralda in the Academy Award-winning Fanny and Alexander. She has twice received the Guldmasken award for her work in theater.
Peter Alexander Haber is a Swedish actor. His father was German, his mother Swedish. He grew up in Skåne, Sweden, and in Remscheid, Germany. In 1987 he was hired by the Stockholm City Theatre where he was active until 1994. At the 29th Guldbagge Awards, he was nominated for the Best Actor award for his role in Sune's Summer.
Sofia Karlsson is a Swedish folk singer.
Håkan Andersson, nicknamed Håkan Bråkan, is the younger brother of Sune Andersson, the main character in the Swedish Sune series, a series of books. Sune finds Håkan very annoying, having given him the nickname "Håkan Bråkan" which roughly translates to Håkan the Troublemaker.
Sune Isidor "Mona-Lisa" Andersson was a Swedish football player and manager. He is best remembered for representing AIK and A.S. Roma during his club career. A full international between 1947 and 1950, he won 28 caps and scored four goals for the Sweden national team. He was part of the Sweden teams that won gold at the 1948 Summer Olympics and finished third at the 1950 FIFA World Cup.
Swedish Television's Christmas calendar or Swedish Television's Advent calendar is a Christmas calendar TV series mainly for children, broadcast by Sveriges Television since 1960 and has developed into an essential part of contemporary Swedish Christmas tradition.
Sunes Summer is a Swedish comedy film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 25 December 1993, directed by Stephan Apelgren. It is based on the chapter book with the same name, the eighth in the book series about Sune, written by Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson. At the 29th Guldbagge Awards, Peter Haber was nominated for the Best Actor award. It also won a shared first-prize during the Italiafiction festival in Salerno in July 1994.
The Sune series is a series of books for children and young adults, published since 1984, by Swedish writers Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson. The stories were originally 90 episodes made for the Swedish Radio and broadcast in 1983–93. The stories are set in the fictional town of Glimmerdagg in central Sweden, situated "somewhere between Karlskoga and Örebro", with the Söderskolan for children age 7-13. The books are written in a present tense, third-person narrative and using imperfect for flashback scenes.
Sunes jul was the 1991 SVT Christmas calendar. In 2004, it was later released to DVD. In 2007, it was voted the third best Julkalender ever in Aftonbladet. It is based on the books series about the boy Sune by Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson.
Jullovsmorgon was a TV-series for children broadcast by Sveriges Television every morning during the Swedish Christmas holidays. At the mornings during the Swedish summer holidays, a TV-series called Sommarlovsmorgon is broadcast. The 1st "Jullovsmorgon" Gomorron jul with Anita och Televinken was broadcast during the 1970/1971 Christmas and the 39th and last "Jullovsmorgon" Träskändan was broadcast during the 2008/2009 Christmas.
Sune och Svarta Mannen is a chapter book, written by Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson and originally published in 1989. It tells the story of Sune Andersson during the autumn term year in where he turns 9. The book was the first written by Anders and Sören all together. Several of the church- and Christmas-based stories were used for the 1991 Swedish TV Advent calendar Sunes jul.
Sagan om Sune is a Swedish children's chapter book, written by Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson and originally published in 1984. It tells the story of Sune Andersson during the spring term of the 1st grade at school in Sweden. Anders originally wrote the stories when doing his military service, while Sören illustrated. Originally, the stories aired over SR Örebro, the radio station in Örebro.
Eva Magdalena Andersson is a Swedish politician and economist who has served as Leader of the Opposition since October 2022 and Leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party since 2021. She has served as a Member of the Riksdag for Stockholm County since 2014. She previously served as Prime Minister of Sweden from November 2021 to October 2022, Minister for Finance from 2014 to 2021 and Chair of the International Monetary and Financial Committee from 2020 to 2022.
Erik Haag is a Swedish television presenter who hosted one of the semifinals of Melodifestivalen 2005 and Historieätarna both on SVT. He presents Historieätarna along with Lotta Lundgren. He has been married to actress and author Martina Haag.
The Anderssons Hit the Road is a Swedish comedy, children and family film opening at cinemas in Sweden on 25 December 2013. It was written by Hannes Holm together with Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson, and among the actors were William Ringström, Morgan Alling and Anja Lundqvist.
The Anderssons Rock the Mountains is a Swedish comedy, children's and family film, which opened at cinemas in Sweden on 19 December 2014. The film, partly recorded in Åre, is the final in a trilogy of Sune films.
Sveriges Radio's Christmas Calendar is an annual series of pre-Christmas children's programmes produced and broadcast by Sveriges Radio in the form of a radio advent calendar. The first series – entitled Barnens adventskalender – was broadcast in 1957.
Events from the year 2002 in Sweden
Grod jul på Näsbrännan was the 1993 edition of Sveriges Radio's Christmas Calendar. It was also released as a book in 1993.
Håkan Bråkan was the Sveriges Television's Christmas calendar of 2003, based on the literary character with the same name.
