Åke Robert Holmberg (31 May 1907 in

Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

– 9 September 1991) was a Swedish writer and translator, most famous for his nine children's books about detective

Tam Sventon Tam Sventon (Swedish: ''Ture Sventon'') is a fictional private detective based in Stockholm, the main character in nine well-known Swedish children's books written by Åke Holmberg between 1948 and 1973. He is characterized by eating semlas, n ...

(Swedish: ''Ture 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. 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.

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1907 births 1991 deaths Writers from Stockholm Swedish crime fiction writers {{sweden-writer-stub