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Åke Robert Holmberg (31 May 1907 in Stockholm – 9 September 1991^{[citation needed]}) was a Swedish writer and translator, most famous for his nine children's books about detective Tam Sventon (Swedish: Ture Sventon).[1]

Åke Holmberg
Åke Holmberg
Born	(1907-05-31)31 May 1907 Stockholm, Sweden
Died	9 September 1991(1991-09-09) (aged 84) Stockholm, Sweden
Occupation	writer
Language	Swedish
Nationality	Swedish
Period	1946-1986
Genre	children
Notable works	Tam Sventon

Biography

Holmberg studied at Stockholm University and graduated with a PhD in 1934. He then worked for several years at the Nordic Museum in Stockholm, and became a full-time author in 1946. Holmberg wrote exclusively youth books, with one exception: the adult novel a breakfast in Aquileia from 1967.[2]

Åke Holmberg was awarded Svenska Dagbladet's Literature Prize in 1948 (together with Stina Aronson, Vilgot Sjöman, Ragnar Bengtsson and Bengt V. Wall). In 1961, he became the recipient of the Nils Holgersson plaque, and in 2007 he received the award Temmelburken at the Book and Library Fair in Gothenburg. In addition to his own books, Holmberg also translated more than 20 books, mainly children's and youth books, from Danish, English and German. Åke Holmberg began the return on all future copyright payments to a fund, the Åke Foundation and Vera Holmberg's scholarship fund.[3]

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[de] Åke Holmberg

Åke Robert Holmberg (* 31. Mai 1907 in Stockholm; † 9. September 1991 ebenda) war ein schwedischer Schriftsteller und Übersetzer. Er wurde insbesondere wegen seiner Kinderbücher um den Privatdetektiv Teffan Tiegelmann bekannt; in neueren Übersetzungen im Arena-Verlag wird Tiegelmann nun mit seinem schwedischen Namen Ture Sventon bezeichnet.

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- [en] Åke Holmberg

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