Ebbe Schön (13 December 1929 – 4 August 2022) was a Swedish author,

folklorist Folklore studies (also known as folkloristics, tradition studies or folk life studies in the UK) is the academic discipline devoted to the study of folklore. This term, along with its synonyms, gained currency in the 1950s to distinguish the ac ...

and

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in literature at

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. Besides literature, he studied

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Scandinavian languages The North Germanic languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages—a sub-family of the Indo-European languages—along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages. The language group is al ...

and

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at Stockholm University. Among other things, he worked as a naval radio operator and as a press officer and film producer at the Swedish Naval Staff, and was a radio and TV producer at

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and

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. Schön was the head of Sweden's largest folklore collection at the

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in Stockholm for almost two decades. He wrote many books about literature, folklore and

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, both for adults and children.

Bibliography

* ''Jan Fridegård och forntiden'' (doctor's dissertation) (1973) * ''Jan Fridegård'' (1978) * ''Julen förr i tiden'' (1980) * ''Folktro i Bohuslän'' (1983) * ''Älvor, vättar och andra väsen'' (1986) * ''Trollguld'' (1986) * ''Karolinens pojke'' (1988) * ''Folktrons år'' (1989) * ''Roddarpojken'' (1990) * ''Häxor och trolldom'' (1991) * ''Luffar-Olas rim och ramsor'' (1991) * ''Kungar, krig och katastrofer'' (1993) * ''Älskogens magi'' (1996) * ''Vår svenska tomte'' (1996) * ''Troll'' (1997) * ''Sjöjungfrur, stenhuggare och gnistapor'' (1997) * ''Svensk folktro A-Ö'' (1998) * ''Svenska traditioner'' (1998) * ''Troll och människa'' (1999) * ''Drakar och trollormar'' (1999) * ''De döda återvänder'' (2000) * ''Älvor, troll och talande träd'' (2000) * ''Folktro från förr'' (2001) * ''Skepnader i skymningen'' (2001) * ''Folktro om ödet och lyckan'' (2002) * ''Silverpipan'' (2002) * ''Trollkistan'' (2003) * ''Asa-Tors hammare'' (2004) * ''Folktrons ABC'' (2004) * ''Kungar, krig och katastrofer'' (new enlarged edition) (2005) * ''Vår svenske tomte'' (new enlarged edition) (2006) * ''Folktro på fäbodvall'' (2006) * ''Jätten i Brofjäll'' (2007) * ''Svenska sägner'' (2008) * ''Häxkonster och kärleksknep'' (2008) * ''Ödet och lyckan'' (new edition of Folktro om ödet och lyckan) (2009) * ''Erotiska väsen'' (2010) * ''Kungar, krig och katastrofer'' (new enlarged edition) (2011) * ''Fotspår på röd granit'' (2012) * ''Gårdstomtens långa minne'' (2014) * ''Fan i båten'' (2015) * ''Mat, dryck och magi'' (2016) * ''Gårdstomten på Ryk'' (2018) * ''Vår svenske tomte'' (new enlarged edition) (2018) * ''Ängel med bockfot'' (2019) * ''Gårdstomtens tårar'' (2022) Besides, Ebbe Schön participates in a number of anthologies, newspapers, magazines and yearbooks.

Awards and honours

* Studieförbundet Vuxenskolans folkbildningsstipendium (1989) * Bohuslandstingets kulturpris (1990) * Mickelpriset awarded by Berättarnätet Kronoberg and Studieförbundet Vuxenskolan in Ljungby (1999) * Kungl. Patriotiska Sällskapets Gösta Berg-medalj (2004) * Jöran Sahlgren-pris awarded by Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien för svensk folkkultur (2005) * Bohusläningens kulturpris (2011)

References

* * Berättarnätet Kronoberg
''Mickelpriset''

Författarförmedlingen: Ebbe Schön
* Ekman, Arne. ''NE i tjugo band: En modern och komprimerad version av det stora uppslagsverket''. Malmö: Nationalencyklopedin (NE), 2009. * Heurling, Bo. ''Författaren själv: Ett biografiskt lexikon av och om 1189 samtida svenska författare''. Höganäs: Wiken, 1993. * ''Vem är det: Svensk biografisk handbok''. Stockholm: Norstedt, 1912–.

External links

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Schön, Ebbe 1929 births 2022 deaths People from Lysekil Municipality Swedish-language writers Swedish folklorists Folklore writers Swedish literary scholars Academic staff of Stockholm University Writers on Germanic paganism Swedish Navy officers