Maria Gripe
- 1923-2007
Maria Gripe (1923 – 2007), was a Swedish author of books for children and young adults. She has written almost forty books. Her books have won many awards: for her lasting contribution to children's literature, she received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Writing, she was Swedish winner of the Dobloug Prize for fiction, she was awarded the Nordic Children's Book Prize. Gripe's publisher Bonnier Carlsen established the Maria Gripe Prize in 2005, which is a literary prize awarded annually.
