SARA B. ELFGREN & JOHAN EGERKRANS

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Sweden

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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 one of Sweden’s leading illustrators and was awarded the Elsa Beskow Plaque in 2021 for his collected works. Egerkrans made his debut in 2005 and has since illustrated over a hundred books, including Nordiska väsen (2013), 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.

 

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