Per Håkan Stefan Nilsson (living in Sölvesborg, Sweden since 1981) worked as a music teacher before becoming a full time author in 1999, but his debut was in 1986 with Mellan vakna och somna. He has written over 30 novels, novellas, and children's books, and his works have been translated to over 20 languages. He also wrote the film script for A Different Way which was based on his novel Ett annat sätt att vara ung; furthermore, a Swedish TV series was based on his most known work Heart's Delight. Between 1997 and 2010 he was a member of the Swedish Academy for Children's Books. He is still writing to this day. On Rabén & Sjögren's page for Per Nilsson, he writes this about himself:"I think I became a writer because I am a dad. I started writing to my own kids to tell them about myself as a young boy, and told them, amongst other things, about a 11 or 12 year old who wandered around in Malmö, head filled with daydreams and fantasies, crashing into the hard reality in the form of street lights again and again. That was me. I put the scenes from my memories together to a story and sent it to a competition, wich became my first book." Awards: 1992 - Rabén & Sjögren's contest "Best Love Story" 1997 - Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis 1997 - Nils Holgersson Plaque 1998 - ABF's Literature 1999 - Astrid Lindgren Prize 1999 - The Dutch Silver Kiss Award 2003 - Expressen's Heffaklump 2006 - August Prize (also nominated in 1994, 1998, 2000 and 2002) 2006 - Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2017 - En bok för alla's Reading-promotion Prize