Gull Åkerblom föddes 1943 i Ulricehamn. Numera bor hon i ett litet hus i Kåseberga i Skåne, på gångavstånd från havet och Ales stenar, med man och två siberian huskies. Tidigare arbetade hon 25 år som bibliotekarie innan hon började skriva på heltid. I familjen finns också tre utflyttade vuxna barn och barnbarn. Gull Åkerblom debuterade som författare när hon var 49 år. Fantasyromanen "Johannesnatten" för läsare i tidiga tonåren mottogs med värme. Berättelsen om Matilda fortsätter i "Drakens ö", "Isflöjten" och "De andra". För yngre läsare har Gull Åkerblom skrivit en lättläst bokserie om lågstadietjejen Inez: "Trolleri, Inez!", "Inez långa väg till mormor", "Vem smyger på Inez?", "Heja Inez!","Inez hjärta Sistan" "Inez och spökhuset och "Inez värsta vecka". Vardagsäventyr kring skola, familj, hundar och vänskap kryddade med en smula mystik. Kevin är också i lågstadieåldern, honom möter vi i "Indianbilen" och "Hemligheter". Här samsas tankar om relationer och känslor som syskonsvartsjuka och oron för en sjuk farfar med äventyr och knasiga infall - äventyrsböcker att skratta med och prata omkring. Den mörkaste av Gull Åkerbloms böcker är "Ängel i snön". Martinas mamma dör i en trafikolycka, och vägen genom sorgen blir lång och svår för såväl Martina som hennes pappa. Inga enkla svar ges, men berättelsen inger ändå ett försiktigt hopp om framtiden. Martina finns också med i böckerna om Inez från och med "Heja Inez!" För samma åldersgrupp har Gull Åkerblom också skrivit "Ville och Mina", en berättelse om smärtan när tvillingsjälar börjar dra åt olika håll, svek och styrkan i att växa och utvecklas. Berättarperspektivet växlar mellan Ville och Mina. Gull Åkerblom har åkt runt i skolor och pratat om böcker och skrivande. Hon har också arbetat med skrivarverkstäder och skrivit korta historiska berättelser till Kultur Skånes skånska historia. Gull Åkerblom blev belönad med Maria Gripe-priset 2007 och har fått ett flertal kulturstipendier och priser genom åren. Några av hennes böcker finns översatta till danska, tyska och norska.

Maria Gripe, born Maja Stina Walter (25 July 1923, Vaxholm, Uppland – 5 April 2007, Rönninge), was a Swedish author of books for children and young people, often written in a magical and mystical tone. In 1946 she married the artist Harald Gripe, who created cover illustrations for most of her books. His illustration career, in fact, began in connection with his wife's debut as author of I vår lilla stad ("In our little town"). Maria Gripe's first major success was Josephine (1961), the first of a series of novels that later included Hugo and Josephine and Hugo. During most of her adult life Maria Gripe lived in Nyköping, where an adaptation of her book Agnes Cecilia was filmed. After a long period of dementia Maria Gripe died at 83 in a nursing home in Rönninge outside Stockholm; her husband Harald had predeceased her by 15 years. Their daughter Camilla Gripe is also a children's author. Much of her writing, particularly the later works, is suffused with a supernatural or mystical element. This change in her writing style from her less mature work was partly a result of the influence of Edgar Allan Poe, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, and Carl Jonas Love Almquist, and partly a reaction to violence in entertainment that had begun to gain ground in cultural expression; Gripe sought to manufacture plot tension in less overt ways. A prominent feature of Maria Gripe's writing is a respect for individuals and their unique characteristics, a trait which is especially perceptible in the social realism of the Elvis series, which she co-wrote with her husband Harald in the 1970s. Gripe wrote 38 books, translated into 30 different languages, making her one of Sweden's most prolific writers. Her last published book is Annas blomma ("Anna's Flower", 1997). Several of Gripe's books have been filmed, such as Glasblåsarns barn (The Glassblower's Children), Agnes Cecilia: en sällsam historia ("Agnes Cecilia: a singular history") and the "Shadow" series, directed by Anders Grönros in the 1990s. Kjell Grade directed Hugo and Josephine in 1967, while Kay Pollak filmed Elvis! Elvis (Elvis and his friends) in 1976 and Flickan vid stenbänken ("The girl on the stone bench") became a television series in 1989. Dramatized versions of Tordyveln flyger i skymningen ("The dung-beetle flies at dusk"), Agnes Cecilia, Tanten ("The Aunt") and Svinhugg går igen ("The backbiter bitten") have been produced as radio serials. She also wrote the original Swedish television script for Trolltider ("Magic Time", 1979). Stockholm University Literature professor Boel Westin praised Maria Gripe to a writer for Svenska Dagbladet, declaring that her Shadow books presented an exciting narrative that enabled readers to feel as if they were participants: "She has meant a lot. She renewed children's prose."[1]Literary researcher Ying Toijer-Nilsson, who wrote a biography Skuggornas förtrogna ("Confidant to shadows") of the author, echoed the remarks, saying that she would miss "the warm and humorous human being who was Maria Gripe." The biographer continued: "She has done a lot for the children's book world, and she got her readers to think about philosophy, about the world and about death." Toijer-Nilsson pointed out that Gripe's books also have "a significant tendency to support the social advancement of women." Her books have won many awards, including the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1974, and she was the 1979 Swedish winner of the Dobloug Prize for Swedish and Norwegian fiction.

Inger Edelfeldt (born 1956 in Stockholm) is a Swedish author and translator, as well as the illustrator of many books. She made her debut in 1977 with the book Duktig pojke ("Good Boy"). She has written around 20 books since then, most of which are novels, short stories, poetry books, and books for children and young people. She won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1987. She is internationally known as a Tolkien illustrator through her paintings for the 1985 Tolkien Calendar. She has also painted the covers of several Swedish editions of J.R.R. Tolkien´s books in the seventies and eighties.

Karl Petter Lidbeck är en svensk författare. Han gick den 25 augusti 2010 ut med att det är han som är personen bakom hyllade pseudonymen Hans Koppel. Lidbeck har under sin karriär främst skrivit barnböcker, där det i hans bibliografi återfinns dryga tjugotalet sådana titlar. Han debuterade 1997 med romanen Linnea från Yuijang. I och med användandet av pseudonymen Hans Koppel har Lidbeck även börjat skriva vuxenlitteratur.

Ulf Gottfrid Stark was a Swedish author and screenwriter (he adapted several of his own books for film and wrote the screenplay for the 1999 film Tsatsiki, morsan och polisen). Stark collaborated with the illustrators Anna Höglund and Mati Lepp. From 1989 to 1998 he was an elected member of the Swedish Academy for Children's Books Svenska barnboksakademin. In 1998 he received the Nordic Children's Book Prize. Stark was born and grew up in Stureby, Stockholm Municipality, which place features in several of his books. Stark's interest in writing started early; during his time at secondary school he was introduced to writing by his classmate Peter Curman, and in 1964 he wrote his first poetry Ett hål till livet. Following this, Stark's interest in writing for a career was greatly encouraged.