Anna Friberger

Anna Friberger (born 1944) is a Swedish illustrator, children's book author, animator and set designer.

Personal Life and Studies

Though she was born and grew up in Gothenburg, she currently lives in Malmö.

Friberger started a degree in decorative painting at Konstfack in Stockholm and a degree in illustration at Beckmans before taking on a course for set design offered by SVT. After working for SVT, Friberger travelled to The Hague to study animation at the Vrije Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten.

Work

Anna Friberger's work includes set design for Swedish television, animated movies for children's TV programs, record covers, illustrations for newspapers and posters.

Children's Books Anna has illustrated 76 books, produced school books, and written and illustrated two of her own children's books. She cites Elsa Beskow, Ivar Arosenius, Oscar Wiklund, Louis Moe, and Jean de Brunhoff as influences on her work with picture books.

Comics She wrote and illustrated for Bamse, the popular Swedish comic book series.

Set Design Anna Friberger started working for SVT after completing their course on set design She has worked with Marsyateatern in Stockholm.

Animation Friberger has animated various children's television programs and has animated two films.

Online publications

Friberger has a website on which she has published some of her illustrations.