Gunilla Lundgren

Gunilla Lundgren is a Swedish writer and a peace and environmental activist. She is the coordinator of the International Swedish Writers' Union. Author of more than 30 books for children, translated into many languages and many books in bilingual editions for the second-generation children of immigrants. Among them: In this wide world, an anthology of poems, songs, games in 64 languages, including Fula, Haya, Kimbundu, Creole, Somali, Swahili, Tigrinya, Wolof and Xhosa. She is currently working out a program that involves children in a neighbourhood of immigrants in the suburb of Stockholm, Rinkeby, and the children of a South African township, Langa, near Cape Town.