In The Forest
| Original title | I skogen |
| Original language | Swedish |
| Place of first publication | Svezia |
| Original Publisher | Alfabeta |
In the forest, Maggan, Snuten, and Trim decide what happens: when it will rain, when the cold will arrive. But one day, something unexpected happens. It begins with the birches and pines talking about going on vacation. Then, even some trembling aspens get scared and leave. Things are no longer as they used to be…
The three children continue their game as always, even though the forest around them becomes increasingly empty and barren. Life goes on, the seasons change, and in the end, everything turns out for the best when the trees return.
A picture book that, with humor, explores the anxieties surrounding the ominous changes in the world around us.
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Eva Lindström
(Author, Illustrator)
Eva Lindström is a Swedish artist, winner of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2022. Since the 1980s, her production for children has brought about a revolution in the world of illustrated books. She has published around 35 titles as an author and illustrator, as well as illustrating numerous books by other authors. She has made three short animated films and some of her works have also been adapted for the cinema. Her work has won numerous awards, both in Sweden and abroad, and her illustrated books are translated worldwide. His stories move between the everyday and the existential, combining lightning humour with the absurd and the mysterious.
Laura Cangemi
(Translator)
Laura Cangemi, translator from Swedish, has brought many of the greatest voices of Swedish literature to Italy, so much so that she received the Sweden in Italy Promoter Award from the Italy-Sweden Chamber of Commerce and the Swedish Academy Award for the introduction of Swedish culture abroad. After graduating in Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Milan, he signed the translation of the first title published by the fledgling publishing house Iperborea in 1988.
Since then, she has translated more than 200 books from Swedish, English and Norwegian for the most important Italian publishing houses. She specialises in translating children’s books and has held courses on children’s translation promoted by the Swedish Arts Council. Awards for her translations include the IBBY Honour List and the Natur & Kultur Foundation’s Translation Prize, awarded by the Swedish Academy.