Kristina Digman's picture book Flora's Hill has now been nominated for the Slangbellan ('Slingshot') Award, a yearly prize awarded by the Swedish Writers' Union's BUS section for debutants in the field of children's literature. Flora's Hill represents renowned picture book artist Kristina Digman's debut also as an author and has so far been published in Swedish, Danish and Finnish with further international translations on their way.

The 30.000 SEK prize, founded in 1998, will be awarded on March 12 in Stockholm. Also nominated are Malin Anclair's Ibland regnar det ('Sometimes it rains') and Thomas Froling's Kung Steves sjalvlysande hiphopbibel ('King Steve's luminous hip-hop bible'). The jury aims to reward a unique voice, a literary talent and a new exciting colleague in the field of literature for children and young adults.

Flora's Hill has attracted much press attention, including full spread articles in the leading Swedish morning newspapers Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet. "A highly original art style, inspired by the flat surfaces of medieval art", wrote Dagens Nyheter's Nisse Larsson in January 2008, noting that Digman in just a few years has become one of Sweden's most renowned children's book illustrators and a profile of her own in the world of picture book art. Svenska Dagbladet's Kristin Hallberg called into mind the enigmatic Blue Flower of German Romanticism, the symbol of striving and yearning, "that fantastic element which - no matter how many times you read and look - makes you unsure what is dream and what is reality, what is child's play and what is symbol. Something which I find very good and promising in a first book".

The Swedish Writers' Union is the central professional organisation for writers and literary translators in Sweden.

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