# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-tidholm
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:57:41.695Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-tidholm"
name: "Thomas Tidholm"
slug: "thomas-tidholm"
description: "Thomas Tidholm is a Swedish children's writer, poet, playwright, photographer, translator, and musician. Since his debut as a poet in 1963, he has written poetry, novels, stage plays, and some thirty children's books. He has directed short films for Sveriges Television, done youth theater for Unga Riks, and was a member of Swedish band Pärson Sound/International Harvester in the late sixties. He's also known for the Swedish translation of the radio series and the first four novels in The Hitchhiker's Guide series."
tagline: "Dramatist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1943-04-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.2
  momentum:             10
  historical:           6.618432
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://thomas.tidholm.se/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/516160"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%87%D9%88%D9%84%D9%85"
    title: "توماس تيدهولم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Tidholm"
    title: "Thomas Tidholm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Tidholm"
    title: "Thomas Tidholm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Tidholm"
    title: "Thomas Tidholm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Tidholm"
    title: "Thomas Tidholm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Tidholm"
    title: "Thomas Tidholm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/047954a4-aac5-40a4-a252-b4c4621cc0c2"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2391758"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump