Peter Pohl

1940 -

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

genre: children's literature

country of citizenship: Sweden, Germany

native language: Swedish

languages spoken, written or signed: Swedish

educated at: Stockholm University, Royal Institute of Technology, Södra Latin

occupation: writer, children's writer, lecturer, university teacher

award received: Nils Holgersson Plaque, Expressens Heffaklump, August Prize, Astrid Lindgren Prize, Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis

official website: www.nada.kth.se/~pohl/ppforf.html, www.nada.kth.se/~pohl

Peter Pohl (born 5 December 1940) is a Swedish author and former director and screenwriter of short films. He has received prizes for several of his books and films, as well as for his entire work. From 1966 until his retirement in 2005, he was lecturer in Numerical analysis at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Source: Wikipedia (en)