The visual artist and children's book author Eva Lindström receives the award for her enigmatic visual world in constant change.
The motivation reads “Trees move abroad, dogs assume enormous proportions and objects disappear to suddenly return.
With fast brushwork and condensed color, Eva Lindström creates an ambiguous dialogue in text and image.
The boundary is fluid between children, adults and animals.
With deep seriousness and wild humor, they wrestle with the eternal questions: Who are we?
Where are we going?
Who has taken our hats? ”.
Lindström is thus the second Swede to be awarded the prize after Barbro Lindgren.
Joy and surprise
Lotta Olsson, critic of Dagens Nyheter, is one of those who reacted with both joy and surprise to the announcement.
- I actually dropped my chin.
I had not thought it would go to a Swede and if I had believed it, it would not have been Eva Lindström.
She has been loved by critics and other artists, but she has never really made an impact, says Lotta Olsson.
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