Fam Ekman is a Swedish/Norwegian children's writer and illustrator. She was born in Stockholm, Sweden as the daughter of actors Hasse Ekman and Eva Henning, and moved to Oslo in 1954. She made her literary d�but in 1969 with Det kan h�nda. Her literary breakthrough was Hva skal vi gj�re med lille Jill? from 1976. She was awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for the year's best children's or youth's literature in 2007, for Kall meg onkel Alf. She has received several prizes for her art work, and is represented in the Norwegian National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design. 

March 8th, 1946 in Stockholm (Age 78)