Kadri Ilves is from Estonia, and has previously illustrated children’s books, mainly for Estonian publishers.

Mats Vänehem is an illustrator and an archaeologist. He started as an illustrator of children’s books with the Easy-to-read series The School for Knights together with the author Magnus Ljunggren. The duo creates the football series The Best Club as well.

Mats also collaborates with the author Martin Widmark and makes the illustrations for the books about the boy Halvdan Viking. Beside this, he published his own picture book in 2010, called Hitta Historien.

In parallel with his work as an archaeologist for many years, he has been freelance as a cartoonist all the time. It has mostly become illustrations of and for historical facts. The pictures have been used in teaching materials, magazines, dissertations, popular science books and so on. They can also be seen in exhibitions at various museums around Sweden.

Kristina Digman has trained in painting, sculpture and graphic design. She made her debut as an illustrator of children’s books in 2001 and now writes her own picture books as well. Digman’s work has a natural poetry and she has a rare ability to communicate beauty and feeling in her picture worlds.

Gert Klötzke has been a chef for over 50 years and is now a professor in gastronomy. His awards include Swedish Chef of the Year and Swedish Game Chef of the Year as well as a number of Culinary Olympic and World Cup gold medals as part of the Swedish Culinary Team. He also holds seminars, makes guest chef appearances at restaurants all over the world and has long been active in the Nobel Banquet Committee.