Biography Ekholm Yang

Jan Okholm Jan -Lof Ekholm is a Swedish writer, author of detective novels and fairy tale stories for children. Born on October 20, the writer's books were translated into Danish, German, Norwegian, Russian, Ukrainian, Czech languages. Despite the tremendous success of the tale of friendship of foxes and chickens, which has withstood several reprints in Sweden and other countries, Ekholm worked for a long time only in the detective genre.

He wrote several successful novels. For the book "Murder in Moldar", the Swede. In G. In recent years, the writer again turned to children's literature.

In gg. Fantastic in the work of the author. Despite the fact that Jan Ekholm is known in his homeland as the author of detectives, he also wrote a number of fairy -tale stories for children. Only two of them were published in our country. The most famous was the story “Tutta Karlsson is the first and the only one, Ludwig the fourteenth and others”, telling about the fox family, in particular, about Lisenka named Ludwig the Fourteenth, about his friendship with a chicken Tutta Karlsson and their adventures.

At first glance, the plot is simple and unpretentious, but the author behind external ease and fairy tale hides a deep meaning and raises important problems. Ekholm adheres to traditional fairy -tale techniques and visuals. Anthropomorphism here acts as a certain metaphor and helps to better and more clearly indicate the main theme of the fairy tale - the theme of friendship.

In the story “That's from the city, maybe and I suppose we also see anthropomorphism - it tells about the city where carefree and cheerful animals live, and about their funny adventures. This is again the story of friendship - about friendship, it would seem impossible, about the friendship of a cat and a dog. And the use of animal images allows you to show this topic more clearly.

The action takes place in a fictitious town, maybe, in which it is best to go in a toy car, preferable in blue ”and which is inhabited by a wide variety of animals that have one feature - they are all kind. It is worth noting the funny names of stations, streets and Bulvarov that cannot be found in real life. The description of the city gives the city with utopia - all animals live in peace and harmony, rejoice in life and prosper.

For the first time, the Swedish reader gets acquainted with the cat and dog in the book “TO and SO in the Jungle” “DITT OCH DATT I URSKOGOGEN”. The tales of Yana Ekholm are distinguished by kindness and warmth, although an attentive reader will notice a share of irony, not immediately striking. Using the example of funny fairy -tale plots, the author shows a serious problem characteristic of Swedish society - social inequality, and also ironizes its features, which are certainly exaggerated and hyperbolized, we see, in some way, in some way debropens.