1. Peter Pohl has received prizes for several of his books and films, as well as for his entire work.
16 Facts About Peter Pohl
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Peter Pohl was born on 5 December 1940 in Hamburg, Germany.
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Peter Pohl lost his father during World War II and moved to Sweden with his mother in 1945, where he started school in 1947.
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Peter Pohl went to the Sodra Latin gymnasium in Stockholm until 1959.
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From his 15th until his 30th, Pohl was part of the schools summer camp at Varmdo and later at Blido.
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Peter Pohl studied mathematics and physics and was a research assistant at the Swedish National Defence Research Institute for several years, starting in 1963.
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Peter Pohl soon returned to university in order to graduate at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, where he received his doctorate in Numerical analysis in 1975.
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Peter Pohl became a lecturer in Numerical analysis and wrote several textbooks on this subject.
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Peter Pohl started filming in 1980 and won various prizes for his work.
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Peter Pohl's writing career started in 1983 and two years later he published his first and most successful book, translated in English as Johnny, My Friend.
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Peter Pohl has made a number of short films, mainly in the 1980s.
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Peter Pohl has published a total number of 35 books: 9 textbooks and 26 works of fiction.
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Peter Pohl is primarily known for his works of fiction.
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Peter Pohl's fiction is mostly drama, but includes two works of poetry, a book with fairy tales and a "picture book without pictures" that defies categorisation.
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Peter Pohl considers this to be the most important period of a life.
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Additionally, the book De Stora Penslarnas lek, which Peter Pohl describes as a starting point for his writing, contains fairy tales, based on the fairy tales from the grandfather in Regnbagen har bara atta farger.