Ulf Stark

Ulf Stark
Ulf Stark at the 2005 Gothenburg Book Fair
Born	(1944-07-12) July 12, 1944 (age 72) Stureby, Stockholm Municipality

Ulf Gottfrid Stark (born 12 July 1944) is a Swedish author and screenwriter (he has adapted several of his own books for film and wrote the screenplay for the 1999 film Tsatsiki, morsan och polisen).

Stark has collaborated with the illustrators Anna Höglund and Mati Lepp.

From 1989 to 1998 he was an elected member of the Swedish Academy for Children's Books.

In 1998 he received the Nordic Children's Book Prize.

Stark was born and grew up in Stureby, , which place features in several of his books. Stark's interest in writing started early; during his time at secondary school he was introduced to writing by his classmate Peter Curman, and in 1964 he wrote his first poetry Ett hål till livet. Following this, Stark's interest in writing for a career was greatly encouraged.