Anastasia Strokina

Anastasia Strokina was born 1984 in the Murmansk region. She graduated from music school with a piano major, taught herself the cello and was a member of the Collegium Musicum Moscow chamber orchestra. Strokina not only writes books for children, she is also engaged in literary research and translates from English, French, Dutch and Italian. Born beyond the North Pole, Strokina sets her stories in Northern Russia and Scandinavia, following Selma Lagerlöf and Hans Christian Andersen. Her philosophical fairy tales have been awarded numerous prizes. Strokina is always travelling a lot to where her stories take place.

awards: 2023 Book of the Year Award finalist Internationale Jugendbibliothek Munich
2022 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award nominee
2019 Arsenev Award
2015 Kniguru Award
2014 Krapivin International Prize

foreign rights: China
Croatia
Serbia