Ulf Stark

{{Short description|Swedish author and screenwriter}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Ulf Stark | image = Ulf Stark in Kyiv (cropped).jpg | alt = | caption = Ulf Stark in 2016 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1944|07|12|df=y}} | birth_place = Stockholm, Sweden | death_date = {{Death date and age|2017|06|13|1944|07|12|df=y}} | death_place = Stockholm, Sweden | other_names = | occupation = Author }}

'''Ulf Gottfrid Stark''' (12 July 1944 – 13 June 2017)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.birthday.se/sok/?f=Ulf&l=Stark&y=1944 |title=Sök personer |publisher=Birthday.se |access-date=2014-06-25}}</ref> was a Swedish author<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.barncancerfonden.se/Behallare/Tidning/Tidigare-nummer/20061/Barn--Cancer-106/Kronika-Ulf-Stark-/|title=Barncancerfondens nyheter & pressmeddelanden|access-date=1 April 2012|archive-date=28 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100828032845/http://www.barncancerfonden.se/Behallare/Tidning/Tidigare-nummer/20061/Barn--Cancer-106/Kronika-Ulf-Stark-/|url-status=dead}}</ref> and screenwriter (he adapted several of his own books for film and wrote the screenplay for the 1999 film ''Tsatsiki, morsan och polisen'').

Stark has collaborated with the illustrators Anna Höglund and Mati Lepp.

From 1989 to 1998 he was an elected member of the Swedish Academy for Children's Books.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.barnboksakademin.com/ledamoter/tidigare.shtml|title=Svenska barnboksakademins tidigare ledamöter|publisher=Swedish Academy for Children's Books|language=sv|access-date=16 January 2015}}</ref>

In 1998 he received the Nordic Children's Book Prize.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nordisk-skolebibliotekarforening.org/index.php?pageID=63&page=Oversikt+prisvinnere |title=Nordisk-skolebibliotekarforening.org |publisher=Nordisk-skolebibliotekarforening.org |access-date=2014-06-25 |archive-date=6 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006133507/http://www.nordisk-skolebibliotekarforening.org/index.php?pageID=63&page=Oversikt+prisvinnere |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Career== Stark was born and grew up in Stureby, Stockholm Municipality, which place features in several of his books. Stark's interest in writing started early; during his time at secondary school he was introduced to writing by his classmate {{Interlanguage link|Peter Curman|sv}}, and in 1964 he wrote his first poetry collection, ''{{Interlanguage link|Ett hål till livet|sv}}''. Following this, Stark's interest in writing for a career was greatly encouraged.

Stark died on 13 June 2017 at the age of 72 after suffering from cancer.

==Selected bibliography== {{columns-list| * 1966 – {{Lang|sv|Sophämtarna}} * 1967 – ''{{Lang|sv|Skärgårdsliv}}'' * 1975 – ''{{Interlanguage link|Petter och den röda fågeln|sv}}'' (Stark's 1st children's book) * 1976 – {{Lang|sv|Petter och de upproriska grisarna}} * 1978 – {{Lang|sv|Patrik}} * 1984 – ''{{Interlanguage link|Dårfinkar & dönickar|sv}}'' * 1985 – {{Lang|sv|Maria Bleknos}} * 1986 – {{Lang|sv|Låt isbjörnarna dansa}} * 1987 – ''{{Interlanguage link|Jaguaren|sv}}'' (won the Nils Holgersson Plaque) * 1987 – {{Lang|sv|Sixten}} * 1989 – {{Lang|sv|Karlavagnen}} * 1991 – ''{{Interlanguage link|Min vän Percys magiska gymnastikskor|sv}}'' * 1992 – ''Can You Whistle, Johanna?'' (won the 1994 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis) * 1995 – ''{{Interlanguage link|Min vän shejken i Stureby|sv}}'' * 1996 – ''Min syster är en ängel'' (won the 1996 August Prize) * 1997 – {{Lang|sv|Ängeln och den blåa hästen}} * 1997 – {{Lang|sv|Inget trams}} * 1998 – {{Lang|sv|När pappa visade mej världsalltet}} * 1998 – {{Lang|sv|Lilla Asmodeus}} * 2000 – {{Lang|sv|Ensam med min bror}} * 2000 – {{Lang|sv|Den svarta fiolen}} * 2001 – {{Lang|sv|Mitt liv som Ulf}} * 2001 – {{Lang|sv|Vi läser storbildsblock}} * 2001 – {{Lang|sv|Hönsfjäderskorna}} * 2002 – {{Lang|sv|När mamma var indian}} * 2002 – {{Lang|sv|Göran och draken}} * 2003 – {{Lang|sv|Fullt med flugor i klassen}} * 2003 – {{Lang|sv|När jag besökte himlen}} * 2004 – {{Lang|sv|Kvällen när pappa lekte}} * 2004 – {{Lang|sv|Min vän Percy, Buffalo Bill och jag}} * 2005 – {{Lang|sv|Märklin och Turbin}} * 2008 – {{Lang|sv|En stjärna vid namn Ajax}} * 2010 – ''{{Interlanguage link|De vilda helgonen|sv}}'' * 2012 – ''{{Interlanguage link|Jul i Stora Skogen|sv}}'' * 2016 – {{Lang|sv|Nattåget}} * 2016 – {{Lang|sv|Lillasyster}} * 2016 – {{Lang|sv|Elmer Kock}} * 2016 – {{Lang|sv|Djur som ingen sett utom vi}} * 2017 – {{Lang|sv|Åskan}} * 2017 – {{Lang|sv|En natt ville Nalle vara stor}} * 2017 – {{Lang|sv|Kanel och Kanin och alla känslorna}} * 2017 – {{Lang|sv|Elmer Städare}} * 2017 – {{Lang|sv|Amy, Aron och anden}} * 2018 – {{Lang|sv|Elmer Djurdoktor}} * 2018 – {{Lang|sv|Rymlingarna}} * 2018 – {{Lang|sv|Elmer Spelman}} }}

===English translations=== *2005 – ''Can You Whistle, Johanna?,'' (Gecko Press) {{ISBN|9780958259828}} **2021 – ''Can You Whistle, Johanna?,'' (Gecko Press) {{ISBN|9781776573264}}<ref>{{Cite web|title=Can You Whistle, Johanna? {{!}} Gecko Press|url=https://geckopress.com/bookshop/can-you-whistle-johanna-2/|access-date=2021-03-12|website=geckopress.com|language=en-US}}</ref> *2005 – ''My Friend Percy's Magical Gym Shoes,'' (Gecko Press) {{ISBN|9780958259811}} *2007 – ''My Friend Percy and the Sheik,'' (Gecko Press) {{ISBN|9780958272018}} *2007 – ''My Friend Percy and Buffalo Bill,'' (Gecko Press) {{ISBN|9780958278713}} *2010 – ''Fruitloops and Dipsticks,'' (Gecko Press) {{ISBN|9781877467585}} *2015 – ''When Dad Showed Me the Universe,'' (Gecko Press) {{ISBN|9781927271827}}<ref>{{Cite web|title=When Dad Showed Me the Universe {{!}} Gecko Press|url=https://geckopress.com/bookshop/when-dad-showed-me-the-universe/|access-date=2021-03-12|website=geckopress.com|language=en-US}}</ref> *2019 – ''The Runaways'', (Gecko Press) {{ISBN|9781776572342}}<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Runaways {{!}} Children's Fiction {{!}} Gecko Press|url=https://geckopress.com/bookshop/the-runaways/|access-date=2021-03-12|website=geckopress.com|language=en-US}}</ref>

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==External links== * [http://www.forfatterweb.dk/oversigt/stark Ulf Stark on www.forfatterweb.dk (Danish)] * [http://www.geckopress.co.nz/Ulf_Stark_25.aspx] * [http://www.forlagetresen.dk/6307517 Ulf Stark (written on Danish)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203090906/http://www.forlagetresen.dk/6307517 |date=3 February 2016 }} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110828182400/http://www.bonniercarlsen.se/Upphovsman/Forfattarpresentationssida/?personId=12701 Ulf Stark on Bonnier Carlsen's website] * [https://geckopress.com/author_illustrator/ulf-stark/ Ulf Stark on Gecko Press's website] {{August Prize Best Children}} {{Guldbagge Award Best Screenplay}} {{Astrid Lindgren Prize winners}} {{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stark, Ulf}} Category:1944 births Category:2017 deaths Category:Swedish-language writers Category:Swedish children's writers Category:Swedish screenwriters Category:Swedish male screenwriters Category:August Prize winners Category:Best Screenplay Guldbagge Award winners Category:Swedish male novelists Category:Deaths from cancer in Sweden Category:Swedish people of Walloon descent Category:Recipients of the Nils Holgersson Plaque Category:Recipients of the Astrid Lindgren Prize Category:Novelists from Stockholm