Annika Thor (born 2 July 1950) is a Swedish author and screenwriter from Sweden who has won the

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for ''Truth or Dare'' in 1997.

Life

Thor was born into

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family in

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. She has worked as a librarian, a novelist, screenwriter and as a journalist. She has won the August Prize for the children's story ''Truth or Dare'' in 1997 and the German state award for children's fiction (

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) also for ''A Faraway Island'' in 1999.Annika Thor
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to live on an island in Sweden. This is called ''Faraway Island'' in English and Thor has written three sequels, ''Lily Pond, Deep Sea'' and ''Open Sea''. She has written 15 books for children and teenagers, and three books for adults and they have been translated into 17 languages. Her most recent novel for adults, Om inte nu så när? (If not now, when?), appeared in 2011.

Books

*''Faraway Island'' (En ö i havet), translated from the Swedish by Linda Schenck in 2009, published by Random House in 2009 *''Lily Pond'' (Näckrosdammen), translated from the Swedish by Linda Schenck in 2011 *''Deep Sea'' (Havets djup), translated from the Swedish by Linda Schenck in 2015 *''Open Sea'' (Öppet hav) *''Lighthouse and the Stars'' (Fyr och stjärnor) *''Truth or Dare'' (Sanning eller konsekvens) *''If Not Now, When?'' (Om inte nu så när?)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Thor, Annika 1950 births Living people Writers from Gothenburg Swedish children's writers Swedish women children's writers Swedish women novelists Swedish journalists August Prize winners Best Screenplay Guldbagge Award winners 20th-century Swedish writers 20th-century Swedish women writers Swedish Jews Recipients of the Astrid Lindgren Prize