Elina Warsta

Elina Warsta is an illustrator and graphic designer focused on book design and illustration. Warsta received the Finnish State Award for Children’s Culture in 2016 and has been awarded multiple times in the ‘Most Beautiful Book of the Year’ competition. She has also been nominated for the Finlandia Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature in 2013, 2019 and twice in 2025, as well as for the Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize in 2016. Books she has illustrated have been translated and published in over ten languages.

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