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Håkan Bråkan
Håkan Andersson, nicknamed Håkan Bråkan, is the younger brother of Sune Andersson, the main character in the Swedish Sune series, ''Sune'' series, a series of books. Sune finds Håkan very annoying, having given him the nickname "Håkan Bråkan" which roughly translates to Håkan the Troublemaker. Since 1998, these are also spin-off-books with Håkan as the main character. In December 2003, Håkan became the main character in ''Sveriges Television's Christmas calendar'', a Håkan Bråkan (TV series), TV-series with the same name. Spinoff books References External links Känner du familjen Andersson? {{Portal , Children's literature Child characters in literature Male characters in literature Literary characters introduced in 1983 Spinoffs Book series introduced in 1998 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sune (book Series)
The ''Sune'' series is a series of books for children's literature, children and young adult fiction, young adults, published since 1984, by Swedish writers Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson. The stories were originally 90 episodes made for the Sveriges Radio, Swedish Radio and broadcast in 1983–93. The stories are set in the fictional town of ''Glimmerdagg'' ("Dew glimmer") in central Sweden, situated "somewhere between Karlskoga and Örebro", with the ''Söderskolan'' ("South School") for children age 7-13. The books are written in a present tense, Narration#Third-person, third-person narrative and using imperfect for flashback scenes. Sune Sune Andersson (full name: Karl Sune Rudolf Andersson) is a Swedish schoolboy, living in a two-storey, single-family house with his father Rudolf who works in an office, mother Karin who is a librarian, big sister Anna, and little brother Håkan Bråkan, Håkan "Bråkan" ("Hakan the Menace"). In the third book ''Självklart, Sune'', Sune ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Håkan Bråkans Busbok
Håkan is a common Swedish given name. It has a common origin with the Norwegian given name Haakon (modern Norwegian Håkon, Danish Hakon) in the Old Norse ''Hákon''. The meaning of the name is disputed but a possible meaning is "high son" from Old Norse ''há-'' (Proto-Norse ''hauha-'') (high) and ''konr'' (kin). On Swedish runestones the name is usually written ''Hakun'' and in medieval documents usually ''Haquon'' or in the Latinised versions ''Haqvin''/''Haqvinus''. From the 16th century and onwards the name is usually written Håkan. Although in some western regions the name can be found as Håkon and Håka as late as in the 18th century. In Old East Slavic the name was written Yakun (Cyrillic: Якун). For example, the Primary Chronicle mentions the Varangian leader Yakun that arrived in Kievan Rus' in the year 1024 and fought in the Battle of Listven. The name never became popular as a Slavic name but at least two high rank Novgorod officials had the name: the pos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |