Ann-Madeleine Gelotte (20 February 1940 – 24 December 2002) was a Swedish illustrator and writer.
Biography
Gelotte worked as a nurse and started publishing children's books in 1971. She made her breakthrough as a children's writer with Ida Maria från Arfliden in 1977. The book depicts her grandmother's life in Lapland in the late 19th century. The book was followed by Tyra i 10:an Odengatan (1981), which is about her mother's childhood in a working-class family in Stockholm in the 1910s to 1920s. Vi bodde i Helenelund (1983) is about her own childhood in Sollentuna köping in the 1940s and 1950s.
She also published some other autobiographical books for adults, such as the book Till morfar på fars dag (1980), where she writes about her life as a child of divorced parents.
Works
1971 – Johanna 5 år
1973 – Jag ska minsann inte bli stor igen
1973 – Här kommer vinden
1973 – Då hände det
1976 – Det här är en bok om minstingen
1977 – Min älva
1977 – Ida Maria från Arfliden
1978 – Tänk om jag vore
1978 – Anhörig
1980 – Till morfar på fars dag
1981 – Tyra i 10:an Odengatan
1983 – Vi bodde i Helenelund
1985 – Där de vita sängar stå
1986 – En björnberättelse
1988 – Aladdins son
1990 – Gunnar Grimms äventyr
1992 – När vi var barn
1992 – Snäll
1994 – Brev från en kanin
1996 – En duktig gris
1997 – En tvättbjörns vecka
2003 – Har du hört om räven?