Chronology of Swedish children's and youth literature

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This chronology of Swedish children's and youth literature is intended to provide an overview of important events in the history of children's and youth literature in Sweden . Swedish- language literature from other countries is also taken into account here , e.g. B. Finland .

It primarily covers publications of important books for children and young people, ie books that have received a lot of attention either from the public, from book critics or from literary studies . The term “children's and young people's books” is understood to mean not only those works that were intended from the outset for young readers, but also “child” and “youth-friendly” adaptations of books that were originally written for other target groups.

Individual events from the overall environment of Swedish children's and youth literature such as B. the establishment of important children's book publishers or the foundation of literary prizes .

Abbreviations used:
BB = picture book
KB = children's book
JB = youth book
SB = children's non-fiction book

Naturalism and the turn of the century (1870–1914)

  • 1894 - Anna Maria Roos : Lilla Elnas sagor , KB
  • 1894 - Anna Wahlenberg : Bengts sagor om kungar och tomtar och troll och prinsessor , art fairy tale
  • 1897 - Elsa Beskow : The fairy tale of the little, little woman ( Sagan om den lilla, lilla gumman ), BB
  • 1901 - Elsa Beskow: Little boy in the blueberry forest ( Puttes äventyr i blåbärsskogen ), BB
  • 1905 - Jeanna Oterdahl : Blommornas bok , KB
  • 1906/07 - Selma Lagerlöf : Little Nils Holgersson's wonderful journey with the wild geese ( Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige ), KB
  • 1907 - Jeanna Oterdahl: Det röda huset , JB
  • 1910 - Elsa Beskow: The Wichtelkinder ( Tomtebobarnen ), BB
  • 1912 - Anna Maria Roos: Sörgården ; I Önnemo , school reading books

The interwar period (1914–1945)

The time after the Second World War (1945-2000)

Bo Carpelan, Finnish-Swedish author, critic and translator
Ulf Stark
Margareta Lindberg
Maj Bylock

present

See also

literature

  • Zlatka Loukarsky: The year 1945 as a new beginning of Swedish children's literature , master's thesis (Ludwig Maximilians University Munich), 2006, ISBN 978-3-640-27327-0 [1]