Ann Mari Falk

Ann Mari Falk (December 19, 1916 – July 27, 1988) was a Swedish writer and translator.

The daughter of Ingeborg Larsen and , she was born Ann-Marie Söderbergh in Stockholm. Her brother was also a writer. She worked for the insurance company Hansa from 1935 to 1951. Falk published her first novel ''Fruntimmer'' in 1944. She later translated children's literature from Danish and Norwegian into Swedish.

Falk won a competition sponsored by publisher Wahlström & Widstrand in 1950. She won the in 1953 and the Astrid Lindgren Prize in 1968.

She was married twice: first to Jan Falk, a journalist, in 1935 and then to the writer in 1948. Falk and Eng had a son.

Falk died at the age of 71. Provided by Wikipedia