- It feels completely unreal and I really did not expect this, says Donika Nimani to SVT Nyheter Öst.

The jury praises her song but also thinks that she "puts words to her contemporaries with a unique and exciting tone language in a musically responsive and cocky production".

"Sickly big"

The scholarship of SEK 40,000 is awarded annually by the Ted & Kenneth Gärdestad Memorial Fund.

This year, 80 artists applied with two songs each.

The scholarship is given to musicians under 25 years of age.

- It means so much and is so sick big for me, especially after the last year. It's all the emotions at once. It feels like I'm walking on clouds and have butterflies in my stomach, says Nimani.