2014: The Year of the 100 Year Olds
2014 is the year for several 100
year old celebrations in the Nordic children’s literature. The father
of Mrs. Pepperpot, Alf Prøysen, the verse-smith Britt G. Hallqvist and
the internationally renowned Tove Hansson were
all born in 1914. Barnboken – Journal of Children’s Literature Research honor the memory of the three writers with a special issue.
Britt G. Hallqvist 100 Years
Britt G. Hallqvist’s (1914–1997)
contributions to Swedish children’s literature are many and profound.
It was a sterling authorship that emerged already with her debut book
Rappens på Blåsopp (1950), and then continued with many
children’s and young adult books, several collections of poetry and
verse, drama, religious devotional books and psalms for children.
As a translator and introducer she is equally important. We find her name in several classics, such as Rudyard Kipling’s
The Jungle Book, E. B. White’s Charlotte’s Web, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s
The Little House on the Prairie, J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit
and the works of Shakespeare. Worthy of mentioning is also her
translations of nonsense poems by Edward Lear, Sylvia Plath, T. S.
Eliot, and James Krüss.
Tove Jansson 100 Years
The world renowned writer and
artist Tove Jansson (1914–2001) made her book debut in 1945 with a
shorter story about how the Moomin trolls came to the Moomin valley,
called
The Moomins and the Great Flood. Her multimedial artistry has
been the subject of research in Sweden as well as internationally, for
instance Boel Westin’s extensive
Tove Jansson Life, Art, Work: The Authorised Biography (2007), which will be published in several languages during 2014.
Tove Jansson’s oeuvre
encompasses a range of aesthetical expressions during seventy years. The
Moomin world is a universe of its own, mediated through illustrated
books, picturebooks, comics, theatre, movies and TV-series.
During the 1950’s Tove Jansson became an international megastar through
the Moomin comics. She wrote novels, short stories, and drama for
adults, and worked for many years as an illustrator and political
cartoonist. She has also illustrated the works of many
other authors.
Barnboken
welcomes articles about Tove Jansson and her broad repertoire within
the following themes: crossover and multimediality, ideology and
philosophy, autobiography and autofiction,
loneliness and isolation, childhood and adulthood.
Alf Prøysen 100 Years
The Norwegian author and
songwriter Alf Prøysen (1914–1970) was an important culture personality
in Norway. He wrote not only novels, short stories, and songs for
children and adults, but was also engaged in drama, radio,
television, audio recordings and as a collector of Norwegian folk
songs. Among other things he worked for many years with children’s radio
and television programs, and he also translated several children’s book
classics to Norwegian.
Alf Prøysen made his debut in 1948 with a collection of songs for adults. His first children’s book,
Lillebrors visor (Little brother’s songs), came the year after.
What he is most known for is, however, the four books about
Teskjekjerringa, or Mrs. Pepperpot as she is called in English, the
little lady that can shrink to the size of a teaspoon at any
time. Mrs. Pepperpot was introduced in the journal Kooperatøren
where Prøysen had his own page for children during 1950–1960. In book
format Mrs. Pepperpot first appeared in Swedish in 1955, two years prior
to the first Norwegian publication. The stories
of the little teapot lady has been translated into more than 20
languages.
Deadline for proposals: 20 January 2014
Deadline for articles: 21 April 2014
The articles will be published in late 2014. Please send a 300-word proposal and a short bio to
barnboken@sbi.kb.se. See
Author Guidelines for further information on submission details.
Articles submitted for consideration may not have been previously published or presented in any other context.
Barnboken – Journal of Children’s Literature Research
is published by The Swedish Institute for Children’s Books. It is the
only scholarly journal in its field published in Sweden. The
main language of the journal is Swedish, but articles written in
Danish, Norwegian and English are also welcome. All articles accepted
for publication have been peer reviewed by at least two peers and will
be published online under an Open Access.
The editorial committee consists
of Björn Sundmark, Associate professor, Malmö University, Sweden, Åsa
Warnqvist, PhD, Stockholm University, Sweden (Editor), and Mia
Österlund, Associate professor, Åbo Akademy University,
Finland (Scientific Editor 2013). Barnboken is published with financial support from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet).
A guide to our reference and note system can be found at the journal website.
Svenska barnboksinstitutet/The Swedish Institute for Children’s Books
Åsa Warnqvist, editor
Odengatan 61
SE-113 22 Stockholm
SWEDEN
Tel: + 46 8 54 54 20 51. E-mail: barnboken@sbi.kb.se
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