Eva Lindström Explained

Eva Lindström (born 1952) is a Swedish illustrator and author. Her work is known for its humorous and dark style.

Life

Lindström was born in Västerås in 1952. She attended the art school Konstfack in Stockholm from 1969 to 1974, where she studied painting and was part of a radical political activist group. The origin of her more radical and dark art style is attributed to this time period. She began her career in the 1980s as a cartoonist. Her first book was Katmössan (The Cat Hat), which she wrote and illustrated. In 1996, she published her second book Lurix. She is known for her children's books, such as Berättesler om Mats Och Roj (Somebody Moves In—Stories About Mats and Roj) (2002) and Olli Och Mo (Olli and Mo) (2012).

Style

Lindström's illustrations are often created using watercolor with gouache or pencil. The Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize nomination text described her work as "often funny and clever as well as having an existential depth."

Selected works

• The Cat Hat (1989)^[1]
• Olli och Mo (Olli and Mo)
• Snöret, fågeln och jag (Little String, the Bird, and Me) (2013)^[2]
• My Dog Mouse (2017), Gecko Press ^{[3] [4]}
• Everyone Walks Away (2019), Gecko Press ^{[5] [6]}

Awards and honors

• Elsa Beskow Plaque, 1993
• BMF Plaque, 2001
• Expressens Heffaklump, 2002
• En Bok För Alla's Literary Humor Prize, 2003
• Snöbollen's Best Picture Book of the Year, 2012
• August Prize, 2013 for Snöret, fågeln och jag with Ellen Karlsson^[7]
• Shortlist for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, 2014^[8]
• Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, 2022

External links

• Informative illustrated biography of Eva Lindström by Ulla Rhedin from the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY)

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Cat Hat . . 9 May 2020 . 1 September 1989.
2. Web site: Snöret, fågeln och jag . www.ijb.de . . 9 May 2020 . 30 March 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190330032156/https://www.ijb.de/spezialbibliothek/white-ravens-2014/single/article/swedish-sweden-8/163.html . dead .
3. Web site: My Dog Mouse . Publishers Weekly . 9 May 2020 . 19 June 2017.
4. Web site: My Dog Mouse - Eva Lindstrom Gecko Press. 2021-03-14. geckopress.com. 10 June 2019 . en-US.
5. Web site: Everyone Walks Away . . 9 May 2020 . 13 February 2019.
6. Web site: Everyone Walks Away Children's Books Gecko Press. 2021-03-14. geckopress.com. 8 July 2019 . en-US.
7. Web site: Augustpris till Eva Lindström . Svenska Tecknare . 9 May 2020 . sv-SE . 26 November 2013.
8. Web site: Eva Lindström . ALMA . 22 March 2022.