What is Ulf Stark?
{{Infobox person | name = Ulf Stark | image = Ulf Stark in Kyiv (cropped).jpg | alt = | caption = Ulf Stark in 2016 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1944|7|12}} | birth_place = Stureby, Stockholm Municipality | death_date = {{Death date and age|2017|6|13|1944|7|12}} | death_place = Stockholm, Sweden | nationality = Swedish | other_names = | known_for = | occupation = Author }} '''Ulf Gottfrid Stark''' (12 July 1944 – 13 June 2017)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.birthday.se/sok/?f=Ulf&l=Stark&y=1944 |title=Sök personer |publisher=Birthday.se |access-date=2014-06-25}}</ref> was a [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[author]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Barncancerfondens nyheter & pressmeddelanden|url=https://www.barncancerfonden.se/press/|access-date=2020-12-07|website=Barncancerfonden|language=sv}}</ref> and [[screenwriter]]. He adapted several of his own books for movies and wrote the screenplay for the 1999 movie ''[[Tsatsiki, morsan och polisen]]''. From 1989 to 1998 he was an elected member of the [[Swedish Academy for Children's Books]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.barnboksakademin.com/ledamoter/tidigare.shtml|title=Svenska barnboksakademins tidigare ledamöter|publisher=Swedish Academy for Children's Books|language=sv|access-date=16 January 2015}}</ref> In 1998 he received the [[Nordic Children's Book Prize]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nordisk-skolebibliotekarforening.org/index.php?pageID=63&page=Oversikt+prisvinnere |title=Nordisk-skolebibliotekarforening.org |publisher=Nordisk-skolebibliotekarforening.org |access-date=2014-06-25 |archive-date=2014-10-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006133507/http://www.nordisk-skolebibliotekarforening.org/index.php?pageID=63&page=Oversikt+prisvinnere |url-status=dead }}</ref> Stark died 13 June 2017 in [[Stockholm]], Sweden from [[pancreatic cancer]] at the age of 72. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Stark, Ulf}} [[Category:1944 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from pancreatic cancer]] [[Category: