Plupp is the protagonist of a series of

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author

Inga Borg Inga Maria Borg (25 August 1925 – 24 October 2017) was a Swedish artist and children's book author. She is best known for writing about the fantasy figure Plupp. She was awarded the Elsa Beskow Award for her books about Plupp in 1970. Inga Borg ...

(1925–2017), who first created the character in 1955. Plupp is a small figure with blue hair and a red nose, who lives in a '' kåta'' by a lake called ''Blåvattnet'' ("Blue Waters") somewhere in the far north. Borg describes the character as an ''invisibling'' (meaning that Plupp is invisible to humans) who is both human and animal in nature. She further explains that Plupp is neither male nor female, as she wanted to create a character that children of both sexes could identify with. Plupp also has the ability to talk with animals; two of their closest friends are the

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Lämmel and the

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Hermelin. The books about Plupp have been translated into

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, Skolt Sami,

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. In 1968, Borg adapted the books into the animated TV series ''Plupp och hans vänner'' ("Plupp and his friends"). In 1970, Borg received the Elsa Beskow Award for the ''Plupp'' books.

The books

* ''Plupp och renarna'' ("Plupp and the

Reindeer Reindeer (in North American English, known as caribou if wild and ''reindeer'' if domesticated) are deer in the genus ''Rangifer''. For the last few decades, reindeer were assigned to one species, ''Rangifer tarandus'', with about 10 subspe ...

", 1955) * ''Plupp bygger bo'' ("Plupp Builds a

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", 1956) * ''Plupp gör en långfärd'' ("Plupp on a Long Trip", 1957) * ''Plupp och lämlarna'' (Plupp and the Lemmings", 1960), new edition 1982 * ''Plupp'' (1964), edition with 4 previous books * ''Plupp reser till havet'' ("Plupp Travels to the Sea", 1967) * ''Plupp och fågelberget'' ("Plupp and the Bird Mountain", 1969) * ''Plupp åker flotte'' ("Plupp Goes

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ing", 1971) * ''Plupp reser till Island'' ("Plupp Travels to

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", 1972) * ''Plupp kommer till stan'' ("Plupp in the City", 1977) * ''Hemma hos Plupp'' ("At Home with Plupp", 1982) * ''Vinter hos Plupp'' ("Plupp's Winter", 1982) * ''Plupp och vårfloden'' ("Plupp and the Spring Flood", 1982) * ''Plupp och midnattssolen'' ("Plupp and the

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", 1982) * ''Plupp och hans vänner'' ("Plupp and His Friends", 1983) * ''Plupp och björnungarna'' ("Plupp and the Bear Cubs", 1983) * ''Plupp i storskogen'' ("Plupp in the Great Forest", 1983) * ''Plupp och havet'' ("Plupp and the Sea", 1986) * ''Plupp och tranorna'' ("Plupp and the Cranes", 1986) * ''Plupp och vargen'' ("Plupp and the Wolf", 1986) * ''Plupp och Tuva-Kari i Kolmåreskog'' ("Plupp and Tuva-Mari in Kolmåre Forest", 1990) * ''Plupp och all världens djur'' ("Plupp and all the Animals of the World", 1991), 1992 calendar * ''Kalas hos Plupp'' ("Plupp's Party", 1996) * ''Plupp och renkalven'' ("Plupp and the Reindeer Calf", 1997) * ''Plupp och älgen'' ("Plupp and the

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", 1998) * ''Plupp och lodjuret'' ("Plupp and the

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", 2005)

References

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