Ann-Madeleine Gelotte (20 February 1940 – 24 December 2002) was a Swedish illustrator and writer.
[1] 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.