Viveca Lärn

Viveca Lärn
Viveca Lärn
Born	(1944-04-06) 6 April 1944 (age 80) Gothenburg, Sweden
Period	1975-
Genre	children
Notable works	Mimmi, Eddie

Viveca Lärn, earlier Viveca Sundvall, (born 6 April 1944) is a Swedish writer^[1] and journalist. She is mostly famous for writing the Mimmi and the Eddie children's books series. She has also written books for an adult audience, and many of those books formed the basis for the TV series Saltön.

Biography

Childhood and upbringing

Viveca Lärn is the daughter of Hubert Lärn, who was a journalist and cartoonist, and Katarina, born Ekstrand, as well as niece to Ferdinand Lärn.^[2] In the autobiographical book Sladdisen, a book about my childhood, she depicts her growing up in Gothenburg with the summer holidays at Tjörn. The parents were artistically educated, and the home was characterized by "fantasy, art, literature and popular science walks". She learned early to read and write. Her parents, rather, experienced as her friends than as authorities. In front of games and children's party, she preferred to stay at the creek near the home and fantasize for herself.^[3]

At school started, Viveca Lärn had to skip first class. She never enjoyed the primary school or the girls' school but received good grades except in the essay writing, when her essays were considered to contain "too much imagination" with the admission to the Latin Latin Latin Agency, however, her four best adolescence began. She enjoyed the youth gang that gathered at Götaplatsen and visited the popular dance clubs.^[4] She was given her first writer's assignment as a twelve-year-old when the uncle at the Gothenburg-Tidningen needed a translator to the series' text boxes. An aunt and her husband became deputy parents when she returned to Gothenburg after the family's move to San Francisco. Early on, she was set to become a writer and during high school,^[5] Lärn won an essay competition with a Frankrikesa as the first prize.^[6][7]

Awards

• Astrid Lindgren Prize 1985^[8]
• BMF-plaketten 1985 – för Vi smyger på Enok ^[9]
• Wettergrens barnbokollon 1991^[10]
• Expressens Heffaklump 1992 ^[11]
• Nils Holgersson Plaque 1992 för Eddie och Maxon Jaxon^[12]
• Partille Bokhandels författarstipendium 1994
• Årets göteborgare 1998
• Bokjuryn (kategori 7-9 år) 2000
• SKTFs pris-årets forfatter 2004^[13]
• Tage Danielsson-prisen 2004^[14]

References

1. Sundvall, Viveca, författare. Partille in Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1993, page 1054.
2. "Personligt". Viveca Lärn. Archived from the original on 2012-10-19. Retrieved 2012-07-27.
3. Lärn, Viveca, 1944-. - Sladdisen : en bok om min barndom / Viveca Lärn.. - 2019. - ISBN 9789100177881
4. Swalander, Christian (2019-04-13). "Lärn bjuder in till en göteborsk nostalgitripp". Blekinge Läns Tidning (in Swedish). Retrieved 2019-07-16.
5. "Viveca Lärn om nya självbiografin Sladdisen: "Jag har alltid varit ensam"". Selma Stories. Retrieved 2019-07-16.
6. Lärn, Viveca, 1944-. - Sladdisen : en bok om min barndom / Viveca Lärn.. - 2019. - ISBN 9789100177881
7. Österman, Lina (2019-04-13). "Viveca från de sju haven". www.unt.se. Retrieved 2019-07-16.
8. "Författarkväll med Viveca Lärn på Astrid Lindgrens Näs". Mynewsdesk (in Swedish). Retrieved 2021-06-09.
9. "BMF-barnboksplaketten". www.boksampo.fi (in Swedish). Retrieved 2021-06-09.
10. "Wettergrens Barnbokollon - SBI" (in Swedish). 2011-09-05. Archived from the original on 2011-09-05. Retrieved 2021-06-09.
11. "Expressens Heffaklump". www.boksampo.fi (in Swedish). Retrieved 2021-06-09.
12. "Vinnare av Nils Holgersson-plaketten" (PDF). 2021-06-09.
13. "Viveca Lärn är årets författare". Vision (in Swedish). 2011-08-17. Retrieved 2021-06-09.
14. Radio, Sveriges. "Årets Tage Danielssons pris till Viveca Lärn - P4 Göteborg". sverigesradio.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2021-06-09.

External links

Media related to Viveca Lärn at Wikimedia Commons