Karl Martino Widmark (born 19 March 1961)Swedish birthday website is a Swedish children's writer and teacher. His books about LasseMaja junior mysteries, in English named The Whodunit Detective Agency, have been translated from Swedish into 34 languages. Eight of them have been translated into English and published by Grosset and Dunlap. Several of his books about the Whodunit Detective Agency have been adapted to film in Sweden, and they have also been made into board games, theater and video games. Martin Widmark was born in Sturefors and grew up in Linköping, but has lived in Stockholm since the 1980s.
Martin Widmark is involved in issues concerning reading comprehension of children and young people and was the initiator of the project A Reading Class (En läsande klass) which was launched in 2012, together with several publishers and the Junibacken Foundation. He has made more than a thousand visits to different schools and classrooms and was in August 2014 awarded the Swedish government's medal Illis Quorum for his books and work with children and young people's reading.
Widmark made his debut with the book "To catch a woman with a mental disorder" (Att fånga en tiger). Since then he has written over hundreds of books for children and young people and is today one of Sweden's most popular children's book writers with almost 10 million books sold. His books have been translated into almost 40 different languages.
Bibliography Young adult books
2008 - Kabinettets hemlighet
Picture books 2000 - Att fånga en tiger (with Joakim Lindengren) 2006 - Att lura en elefant (with Kiran Maini Gerhardsson) 2006 - Från himmelens topp till havets botten (with Pietro Galeoto) 2009 - Drömmarnas park (with Marco Trisorio) 2011 - Fånga farliga djur (illustrator: Kristina Grundström) 2016 - Lilla Sticka i landet Lycka (illustrator: Emilia Dziubak) 2017 - Huset som vaknade (illustrator: Emilia Dziubak) 2018 - Den långa vandringen (illustrator: Emilia Dziubak)
LasseMajas detektivbyrå See main article: The Whodunit Detective Agency
Rakel (with Britt Sternehäll) 2005 - Sjörövar-Rakel och kapten Snorfinger 2006 - Riddar-Rakel och de tre stordåden 2007 - Racer-Rakel och fångarna i svinstian 2008 - Mirakel-Rakel Rekordmamma 2008 - Rymd-Rakel och Gubben i månen 2009 - Charter-Rakel och Fuskhajarna 2010 - Upptäckar-Rakel och den okända kungens grav
Nelly Rapp (with Christina Alvner) 2003 - Monsterakademin 2003 - Frankensteinaren 2004 - Varulvarna 2005 - Trollkarlarna från Wittenberg 2006 - Spökaffären 2007 - De vita fruarna på Lovlunda slott 2008 - Häxdoktorn - och den sista zombien 2009 - Sjöodjuret i Bergsjön 2010 - I Bergakungens sal 2011 - Snömannens hemlighet 2012 - De spökande prästerna 2013 - Vampyrernas bal 2014 - Trollkarlens bok 2014 - Kapten Blåskägg 2015 - Nelly Rapp och häxornas natt 2016 - Nelly Rapp och de små under jorden 2017 - Nelly Rapp och gastarna i skolan 2018 - Nelly Rapp och näckens hemlighet 2019 - Nelly Rapp och det hemliga biblioteket
David and Larissa (illustrator: Katarina Strömgård) 2006 - Antikvariat Blå spegeln 2006 - Den trettonde gästen 2007 - Dårarnas ö 2008 - Nåjdens sång 2009 - Under en himmel av glas
I elfte timmen: 2007 - Tvättade pengar (with Petter Lidbeck) 2007 - Lyckans hjul (with Lidbeck) 2008 - Bröllop och barn (with Lidbeck) 2008 - Förbjuden frukt
Tyko Flores äventyr (illustrator: Henrik Tamm) 2011 - Den dansande djävulen 2011 - Fyrtornet i Son-Li 2011 - Polyhymnias guld
Halvdan Viking (illustrator: Mats Vänehem) 2011 - Hövdingens bägare 2012 - Främlingens grav 2013 - Vargens hjärta 2013 - Forsens drottning 2014 - Miklagårds lås 2014 - Isens gud 2015 - De sju brödernas skatt 2016 - Munkens löfte 2017 - Ulfberhts svärd 2018 - Halvdan och Meia. Bland trälar och gudar - äventyr och fakta om vikingar
Emma and Larry (with Kristina Grundström) 2008 - Huset på Alvägen 2008 - Vägen till skatten 2009 - Ben och Koko söker jobb 2010 - Den försvunna elefanten
Little Extra-series (with Kristina Grundström) 2013 - Hitta den rätta 2013 - Alla ljuger 2014 - Rocky vår hjälte 2015 - Rädda Harry! 2015 - Fotboll på liv och död
Other 2017 - Talmannens hämnd (with Petter Lidbäck) (illustrator: Pelle Forshed) 2017 - I rosens mitt (illustrator: Ola Skogäng)
References
External links Official website Info about Martin Widmark and Helena Willis on LasseMaja's website Bibliography