# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martin-widmark
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:20:57.971Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/martin-widmark"
name: "Martin Widmark"
slug: "martin-widmark"
description: "Karl Martino Widmark is a Swedish children's writer and teacher. His books about LasseMaja junior mysteries, in English named The Whodunit Detective Agency, have been translated from Swedish into 34 languages. Eight of them have been translated into English and published by Grosset and Dunlap. Several of his books about the Whodunit Detective Agency have been adapted to film in Sweden, and they have also been made into board games, theater and video games.\nMartin Widmark was born in Sturefors and grew up in Linköping, but has lived in Stockholm since the 1980s."
tagline: "Swedish children's writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Martin_Widmark.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1961-03-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.869565217391306
  historical:           7.303926666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.martinwidmark.se/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump