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Ulrika Kestere is a Latvian-born Swedish graphic designer, picture-book author, and photographer based in Lund. She has published six children’s books, including Wild Neighbours, Otto Goes North, The Sensitive Hedgehog, The Birthday, No More Cookies, and The Magical Swan Sven. Kestere often draws on the folklore and fairytale traditions of […]
Clara Dackenberg (1987) is a Swedish illustrator and visual artist. She was born in Umeå and is currently based in Malmö. Dackenberg studied at HDK in Gothenburg and holds an MFA from Konstfack in Stockholm. She debuted as a children’s-book illustrator around 2010. Her work spans picture books, wood-carving, and […]
Elsa Beskow (1874–1953) was a Swedish children’s writer and illustrator of children’s books. She studied art history at the Faculty of Arts of the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design. After the publication of her book Putte’s Adventures in the Blueberry Forest (Puttes äventyr i Blåbärsskogen) in 1901 — […]