SARA B. ELFGREN & JOHAN EGERKRANS

Rights
Italy
Sweden

Awards & nominations 

Sara B. Elfgren
2023 – Grim – Winner of the ESFS award for Best Written Work of Fiction at Eurocon 2023
2023 – Grim –  Winner of Swedish Audio Award in the Young Adult category
2021 – VEI, Book 2 – Winner of the Urhunden Award
2020 – VEI, Book 1 – Silver medal in the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award
2018 – In Dreams – winner of the Swedish Audio Award in the Young Adult category
2018 – In Dreams – nominated to the Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literary Prize
2019 – The White Reindeer Award
2012 – Fire – Book Jury Prize
2012 – Fire – Great Reader’s Prize
2012 – The Circle – Icelandic Book Seller’s Award
2011 – The Circle – Book Blogger’s Literary Prize
2011 – The Circle – Book Jury Prize
2011 – The Circle – Great Reader’s Prize
2011 – The Circle – nominated to the August Award

Johan Egerkrans
2021 – The Elsa Beskow Plaque for his collected work

The fantasy masters Sara B. Elfgren and Johan Egerkrans have together created an enchanting Christmas tale for the whole family. The Christmas Star is a thrilling adventure, encountering a rhyming giant and his giant goat, unreliable mirror creatures, and a mysterious snow-white fox.

Sara B. Elfgren is one of the most versatile storyteller in Sweden right now and with her award-winning and critically acclaimed novels Grim (2021) and In Dreams (2017), she has reached both young and adult readers. In her books for younger children, Sara has collaborated with illustrators Emil Maxén (The Big Banquet, 2019) and Maria Fröhlich (I’m Not Sick! (2019), among others). Vei, the epic fantasy comic inspired inspired by Norse mythology, created together with illustrator and artist Karl Johnsson is a critics success and published in USA and several other countries. Together with Mats Strandberg, she wrote the popular and critically acclaimed Engelsfors series (The Circle, The Fire, and The Key).

Her works have been translated into thirty languages, and she also writes graphic novels, for stage, television, film, radio, and games. She has received numerous literary prizes and has been nominated for the August Prize and the Nordic Council Literature Prize.

Johan Egerkrans is a critically acclaimed Swedish illustrator and author. Drawing and doodling has always been part his life – at age two he picked up a pencil and haven’t quite been able to put it down ever since. Johan Egerkrans was awarded the Elsa Beskow Plaque in 2021 for his collected works.

Johan has worked as a professional illustrator and concept artist for more than two decades, producing artwork for books, games, comics and films. He has since illustrated over a hundred books, including Vaesen (Nordiska väsen), which marked his major breakthrough and his debut as an author. Johan Egerkrans has a great fascination for myths, monsters, and the supernatural, as well as for dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. In addition, Johan has worked on covers and illustrations for a number of internationally acclaimed authors such as J.R.R Tolkien, Astrid Lindgren and Isaac Bashevis Singer.

 

Bibliography

2024 – The Christmas Star (Julstjärnan), children’s novel (6-9)

 

Author photo

Kajsa Göransson. For photo rights please contact the photographer at info@kajsacharlotta.se