Lena Anderson is a Swedish children's book illustrator and author.
Anderson was born in
Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm () is the capital and largest city of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people live in the municipality, with 1.6 million in the urban area, and 2.4 million in the metropoli ...
in 1939.
She first gained international success for her illustrations in the 1985 picture book ''
Linnea in Monet's Garden'', which was translated into English in 1987.
The book, which she made with Christina Björk, took five years to finish.
She has worked on multiple other books with writer
Christina Björk,
including a series of children's stories with the character Linnea.
Anderson's nature-based drawings continue the tradition of Swedish
picture book
A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children. With the narrative told primarily through text, they are distinct from comics, which do so primarily through sequential images. The images ...
styles, similar to that of
Elsa Beskow's work.
Selected works
Illustrator
* ''Linnea Planterar'' ("Linnea's Windowsill Garden") (1978; English trans., 1988), by Christina Björk
* ''Linnea in Monet's Garden'' (1985; English trans., 1987)
* ''Linnea's Almanac'' (1985; English trans., 1989), by Christina Björk
Author and illustrator
* ''Majas alfabet'' ("Maja's Alphabet") (1984)
[Westin 1996, pg. 60]
* ''Stina'' (1988; English trans., 1989)
* ''Bunny Party'' (1989)
* ''Stina's Visit'' (1989; English trans., 1991)
* ''ABC, sa lilla t'' ("ABC, Said Little T") (1994)
* ''Tea for Ten'' (1998; English trans., 2000)
* ''Tick-Tock'' (1998)
Awards
In 1984, Anderson won the . She received the in 1984. In 1988, Anderson won the
Astrid Lindgren Prize
The Astrid Lindgren-priset, or Astrid Lindgren Prize in English, is a Swedish literary award for children's literature named after the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren. The prize was instituted by the publishing house Rabén & Sjögren in 1967 to ...
along with Christina Björk. Also in 1988, ''Linnea in Monet's Garden'' received the
Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
The (German Youth Literature Award) is an annual award established in 1956 by the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth to recognise outstanding works of children's and young adult literature. It is Germany's only ...
(German Children's Literature Award) in the children's book category.
References
External links
Examples of Lena Anderson's illustrations from Cultivating Home
{{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson, Lena
Living people
Artists from Stockholm
Swedish women children's writers
Swedish children's writers
20th-century Swedish artists
Swedish children's book illustrators
Swedish women illustrators
20th-century Swedish women writers
21st-century Swedish artists
21st-century Swedish women writers
1939 births
Writers from Stockholm