Martin Widmark

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Martin Widmark
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Born19 March 1961
Genre children's literature
Notable works The Whodunit Detective Agency

Karl Martino Widmark (born 19 March 1961) [1] is a Swedish children's writer and teacher. His books about LasseMaja junior mysteries, in English named The Whodunit Detective Agency, have been translated from Swedish into 34 languages. Eight of them have been translated into English and published by Grosset and Dunlap. Several of his books about the Whodunit Detective Agency have been adapted to film in Sweden, and they have also been made into board games, theater and video games. Martin Widmark was born in Sturefors and grew up in Linköping, but has lived in Stockholm since the 1980s. [ citation needed ]

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Martin Widmark is involved in issues concerning reading comprehension of children and young people and was the initiator of the project A Reading Class (En läsande klass [2] ) which was launched in 2012, together with several publishers and the Junibacken Foundation. He has made more than a thousand visits to different schools and classrooms and was in August 2014 awarded the Swedish government's medal Illis Quorum for his books and work with children and young people's reading.

Widmark made his debut with the book "To catch a woman with a mental disorder" (Att fånga en tiger [3] ). Since then he has written over hundreds of books for children and young people and is today one of Sweden's most popular children's book writers with almost 10 million books sold. [4] His books have been translated into almost 40 different languages.

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Young adult books

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Picture books

LasseMajas detektivbyrå

See main article: The Whodunit Detective Agency

Rakel (with Britt Sternehäll)

Nelly Rapp (with Christina Alvner)

David and Larissa (illustrator: Katarina Strömgård)

I elfte timmen:

Tyko Flores äventyr (illustrator: Henrik Tamm)

Halvdan Viking (illustrator: Mats Vänehem)

Emma and Larry (with Kristina Grundström)

Little Extra-series (with Kristina Grundström)

Other

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References

  1. ↑ Swedish birthday website
  2. ↑ "Start". En läsande klass (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 2019-01-03. Retrieved 2019-01-03.
  3. ↑ Widmark, Martin (2000). Att fånga en tiger. Bonnier Carlsen. ISBN   9163815990. OCLC   186315880.
  4. ↑ "Martin Widmark". Bonnier Carlsen. Retrieved 2019-01-03.
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