The Alma Prize to Eva Lundström – BOK365.no

The picture book artist Eva Lindström is awarded this year’s Alma Prize – the world’s largest prize for children’s and young people’s literature.

– It feels a bit like I’m dreaming. I think people are joking with me, says the picture book artist Eva Lindström to TT, after she received the news about him she was the recipient of this year’s Alma Prize. The prize money is as much as 5 million Swedish kroner, which makes it the world’s largest prize for children’s and young people’s literature – and the world’s second largest in money after the Nobel Literature Prize.

Deep seriousness, wild humor and originality characterize her world of images, the jury believes. The prize winner himself thinks the prize winner is a little difficult to accept.

Lindström has been nominated for the fine prize a number of times before, and the author and illustrator has already received both the August Prize and the picture book prize Snøballen in his home country. Now she also receives the high-hanging Alma Prize, Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, which this year had over 280 candidates – from 71 countries – on the nomination list.

This is the second time a Swede has received the prestigious award. In 2014, it went to Barbro Lindgren.

Eva Lindström’s art is described as “uncompromising and cross-border” by the jury – which also emphasizes that her world of images is constantly changing.

The artist has his education from Västerås Art School and from Konstfack University College in Stockholm. In the 1980s, she worked as a cartoonist, and her very first children’s book, published in 1988.

The picture book artist was born in 1952, she has published 35 of her own picture books, as well as illustrated a large number of books in collaboration with various authors.

The Alma Prize is awarded to children’s book authors or illustrators, but it can also go to organizations that promote children’s and young people’s reading in the spirit of the Swedish author Astrid Lindgren. The award was established by the Swedish government in 2002.

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