Category: European authors
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Vard, Colin
About the author Colin Vard is an Irish author who has written several children’s books, generally involving Irish history and mythology. Finding the bookStill reasonably easy to find, and generally not expensive. Bibliography (pony books only) Titania – a Gift from the Fairies Celtpress Ltd, Delgany, Co Wicklow, 60 pp. Illus Tony Kew Titania is…
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Toresen, Eli B
About the author Eli B Toresen is the international editor in chief for Stabenfeldt’s Pony Club division, based in Norway. She spends half her week working as an editor, and the rest writing her own books. Her output is pretty phenomenal: she writes four books a year. I would guess that not all of them…
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Stehn, Malin
About the author Swedish author Malin Stehn (b.1969) lives on the outskirts of Malmo, and writes pony books for the Stabenfeldt imprint. Whilst at school she wrote music reviews for a local paper, and once she left university, she managed to get a job in a publishing house, where she became an editor of children’s…
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Sellberg, Anna
About the author Anna Sellberg was one of the stable of Stabenfeldt authors. She is a Swedish author, and has written many more titles in her native Swedish. A fair few of them have been picked up by Stabenfeldt, who run pony book clubs in various countries. They have translated several of her titles, including…
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Salten, Felix
About the author Felix Salten (1869–1945, pseud. Siegmund Salzmann) is infinitely better known for his other books, principally among them Bambi, the Disney film of which has introduced many a child to the concept of death . He was born in Hungary, but moved with his family to Vienna when very young as Vienna granted…
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Pullum, Isolde
About the author Isolde Pullum first rode a horse at the age of two: she went riding with her older sister, who soon gave up, but Isolde was hooked. Her first pony, Henry, was a bit of a demon, but despite this she wept when he was swapped for the much more suitable Heidi. She…
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Oljelund, Thea
About the author Thea Oljelund (1921–2012) was a Swedish writer who wrote a pony book for the Stabenfeldt imprint. She has written very much more in her native Swedish, but nothing as yet that has been translated into English. She was a feisty child who was bullied at school, and left early. Her father’s library…
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Mjelva, Marianne
About the author Marianne Mjelva is a Norwegian author, who learned to ride when she was right. When she was 10, she wrote in her diary: ‘When I grow up I’m going to be a dog owner, a horse owner and a writer.’ She’s done all of those: she owns a Thoroughbred mare called Tingen,…
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Lynch, Patricia
About the author Patricia Lynch (1898–1972) was a prolific author, who wrote over 40 books, and many short stories. Born in Cork, she would tell stories to her classmates during sewing lessons at her Convent school, many based on her surroundings after she ran out of books to read them. Patricia’s education became rather more…
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Linde, Gunnel
About the author Gunnel Linde is a Swedish author, born in Stockholm in 1924. Her father died when she was small, and she and her mother lived in a small flat after that, the flat itself providing inspiration for one of her later stories. She described herself as an onlooker rather than a doer as…