Fam Ekman
Encyclopedia
Fam Ekman is a Swedish
/Norwegian
children's writer and illustrator. She was born in Stockholm
, Sweden as the daughter of actors Hasse Ekman
and Eva Henning
, and moved to Oslo
in 1954.
She made her literary début in 1969 with . Her literary breakthrough was from 1976. She was awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for the year's best children's or youth's literature in 2007, for .
She has received several prizes for her art work, and is represented in the Norwegian National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design.
Swedish language
Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...
/Norwegian
Norwegian language
Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...
children's writer and illustrator. She was born in Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
, Sweden as the daughter of actors Hasse Ekman
Hasse Ekman
Hasse Ekman was a Swedish director, actor, writer and producer for film, stage and television.Hasse Ekman is probably Sweden's most successful and critically acclaimed film director pre Ingmar Bergman and post Sjöström and Stiller, with his peak in mid-1940s to the year 1950...
and Eva Henning
Eva Henning
Eva Henning is a Swedish stage and movie actress, born in Newark, New York, U.S..- Career :Henning was trained at the Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school in Sweden....
, and moved to Oslo
Oslo
Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...
in 1954.
She made her literary début in 1969 with . Her literary breakthrough was from 1976. She was awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for the year's best children's or youth's literature in 2007, for .
She has received several prizes for her art work, and is represented in the Norwegian National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design.
Awards
- Brage PrizeBrage PrizeThe Brage Prize is a Norwegian literature prize that is awarded annually by the Norwegian Book Prize foundation...
1992 - Norwegian Critics Prize for the year's best children's or youth's literature 2007