Ann Mari Falk (December 19, 1916 – July 27, 1988) was a Swedish writer and translator.[1]
The daughter of Ingeborg Larsen and Fritz Söderbergh [sv], she was born Ann-Marie Söderbergh in Stockholm. Her brother Bengt [sv] was also a writer. She worked for the insurance company Hansa from 1935 to 1951. Falk published her first novel Fruntimmer in 1944. She later translated children's literature from Danish and Norwegian into Swedish.[1]
Falk won a competition sponsored by publisher Wahlström & Widstrand in 1950. She won the Tidningen Vi:s litteraturpris [sv] in 1953[1] and the Astrid Lindgren Prize in 1968.[2]
She was married twice: first to Jan Falk, a journalist, in 1935 and then to the writer Uno Eng [sv] in 1948. Falk and Eng had a son.[1]
Falk died at the age of 71.[1]
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