Ebbe Schön is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 author, folklorist

Folkloristics

Folkloristics is the formal academic study of folklore. The term derives from a nineteenth century German designation of folkloristik to distinguish between folklore as the content and folkloristics as its study, much as language is distinguished from linguistics...

 and associate professor in literature at Stockholm University

Stockholm University

Stockholm University is a state university in Stockholm, Sweden. It has over 28,000 students at four faculties, making it one of the largest universities in Scandinavia. The institution is also frequently regarded as one of the top 100 universities in the world...

. Besides literature, he has studied ethnology

Ethnology

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, Scandinavian languages and Slavonic languages at Stockholm University.

Among other things, he has worked as a naval radio operator and as a press officer and film producer at the Swedish naval staff, and he has been a radio and TV producer at Swedish Radio and Swedish Television. Schön has been the head of Sweden's largest folklore collection at the Nordic Museum

Nordic Museum

The Nordic Museum is a museum located on Djurgården, an island in central Stockholm, Sweden, dedicated to the cultural history and ethnography of Sweden from the Early Modern age until the contemporary period...

 in Stockholm for almost two decades. He has written many books about literature, folklore and Norse mythology

Norse mythology

Norse mythology, a subset of Germanic mythology, is the overall term for the myths, legends and beliefs about supernatural beings of Norse pagans. It flourished prior to the Christianization of Scandinavia, during the Early Middle Ages, and passed into Nordic folklore, with some aspects surviving...

, both for adults and children.

Awards and honours

• Studieförbundet Vuxenskolans folkbildningsstipendium (1989)
• Bohuslandstingets kulturpris (1990)
• Mickelpriset awarded by Berättarnätet Kronoberg and Studieförbundet Vuxenskolan in Ljungby (1999)
• Kungl. Patriotiska Sällskapets Gösta Berg-medalj (2004)
• Jöran Sahlgren-pris awarded by Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien för svensk folkkultur (2005)