Johanna Nilsson (author)

Johanna Nilsson

Johanna Nilsson (* 1973 in Uppsala ) is a Swedish author who is primarily recognized in German-speaking countries because of her books for children and young people . In her Swedish homeland, however, she is also known as an author of adult literature and suspense novels.

Life

Johanna Nilsson was born in 1973 to a missionary in Uppsala and has a brother and a sister.

She grew up in Borlänge , the largest city in the Swedish province of Dalarnas län . Already at high school she wrote her own manuscripts and sent them to publishers. When she was 14 years old, her father took her on a long trip abroad through remote Asian countries, where she got to know Laos , Japan and China, among others . The father settled with the family in Zaire , where he worked as an educator for orphans in a mission station . These African experiences have also flowed into her books.

Nilsson studied theology and political science at Uppsala University and economics at the Stockholm School of Economics and actually wanted to become a science journalist. At that time she worked as a freelance journalist for Upsala Nya Tidning , Dagens Industri , Svenska Dagbladet , Dagens Nyheter and Dala Democrats .

She published her first novel “... and you're out!” At the age of twenty-two. With this she works on a piece of her youth and tells about herself in autobiographical traits. She writes youth literature as well as children's and adult literature. She writes suspense novels under her pseudonym Amanda Lind because, according to her own words, she doesn't want to commit to any literary genre due to her restlessness.

Your children's and young people's books, which have been published in the German-speaking area, describe, based on personal experiences, from the children's perspective the life in blended families ( Alva Kuddelmuddel , Alva och familjen låtsas ) of children of divorce, of young people in conflict with bullying , after a suicide attempt or borderline syndrome ( ... and you're out! ) or the confrontation of a student with the school shooting her best friend ( I'll thump first off! / Janis the magnifika ). The German critics attested her great empathy in portraying the child's psyche. Her children's book Landet med de tusen namnen , previously only published in Swedish, was confirmed to be somewhat similar to Astrid Lindgren's style due to the fairytale elements .

In 2007 she wrote the script De i utkanten älskande for the production company Illusion Films, based on her 2005 book of the same name. This script has not yet been filmed.

Johanna Nilsson lives and works in Uppsala .

reception

... and you're out! was held in 2002 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main as part of a seminar by Hans-Heino Ewers on (youth) literature and / on violence together with other titles translated from the Swedish language ( Mats Berggren : Ganz Schön blue-eyed . Anrich Verlag 2001; Annika Holm : Defend yourself, Mathilda! dtv, Munich 2001; Annika Thor : I would able to say no Weinheim: B & G, 1998; and. Mats Wahl : The Invisible discussed Hanser Verlag 2001) in a double lesson. .

In 2007 Ewers processed the results of the resulting presentations and other comparative research in his essay From the Glorification to the Outlawing of Violence. Children's and youth literature in the context of the current debates about media and youth violence.

Works

As Johanna Nilsson

Swedish

• Strandlöpare-, sandlöpare- . 1992
• Hon går genom tavlan, ut ur form . 1996; German title ... and you're out!
• Flickan som uppfann live . 1999 German title Lügennetz
• Robin med huvan . 2001
• Rebel med frusna fötter . Wahlström & Widstrand, Stockholm 2001
• Alva och familjen låtsas . 2003; German title Alva Kuddelmuddel
• Konsten att vara Ela . 2003
• De i utkanten älskande . 2005
• Pojken som botade sömnen . 2005
• Jag är leopardpojkens yolk . 2006
• Lands med de tusen namnen . 2007
• SOS frånariuskligheten . 2008
• Janis the magnifika . 2009; German title I'm leaving first

In German translation

• ... and you're out! . Translated from the Swedish by Birgitta Kicherer , Hanser Verlag , Munich / Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-446-19448-7 .
• ... and you're out! . (Unabridged edition) Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag , Munich 2001, ISBN 3-423-62064-1 .
• Network of lies . (German first edition) From the Swedish by Birgitta Kicherer, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-423-62087-0 .
• Alva mess . German translation by Birgitta Kicherer, drawings by Eva Erikson , Oetinger Verlag , Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-7891-4324-3 .
• I'm leaving first . ( Janis den magnifika ) German translation by Birgitta Kicherer, Oetinger Verlag, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-7891-4333-5 .

As Amanda Lind

• Francys Gospel , Damm 2010
• Francys Wills , Damm 2011

Prizes and awards

• Wahlström and Widstrands Literature Prize, 2004
• Gustaf Fröding Scholarship, 2005
• Scholarship from Gerard Bonnier's donation fund, 2005
• Karin Boyes Literature Prize, 2005

Web links

• Literature by and about Johanna Nilsson in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of the author Johanna Nilsson (Swedish)
• Author's blog Johanna Nilsson (Swedish)
• English publisher's website (English)
• Rabén & Sjögren - in-house publishing house Johanna Nilssons (Swedish)
• http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2151&artikel=397438

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alex - Tyska - Nilsson, Johanna ( Memento of the original dated August 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Johanna Nilsson ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Booklet - Johanna Nilsson
4. ^ Johanna Nilsson - Författare
5. ↑ Hopeless? - Review to ... and you're out! on www.lesebar.uni-koeln.de by Britta Hartkämper (1999) ( Memento of the original from August 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 3, 2006.
7. ↑ See group review Enough told. Three young authors write about being a teenager - and sometimes add a bit thick from Diana Netz in the ( Memento of the original from November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. WAZ of January 11, 2002. 
8. ↑ Kulturhus Berlin - Newsletter June 2007 ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated July 12, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Hans-Heino Ewers: From the glorification to the outlawing of violence. Children's and youth literature in the context of the current debates about media and youth violence. In: Bernd Dolle-Weinkauff , Hans-Heino Ewers, Regina Jaekel (eds.): Violence in current children's and youth media: from the glorification to the ostracism of a social phenomenon . Juventa, Weinheim 2007, pp. 61–76.
11. ↑ reviews to Jag är leopardpojkens yolk . In: www.tidningenkulturen.se, October 20, 2006 (Swedish)
12. ↑ Review of Landet med de tusen namnen on www.kulturhus-berlin.de ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (German)  
13. ↑ Review of SOS från Bäumenkligheten on svd.se, March 26, 2008 (Swedish)
14. ↑ Review of SOS från Bäumenkligheten on www.sydsvenskan.se. March 26, 2008  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Swedish)  
15. ↑ Review of Janis den magnifika in Aftonbladet May 27, 2009. (Swedish)
16. ↑ Review on www.literaturnetz.com
17. ↑ Review of Alva Kuddelmuddel on perlentaucher.de