Participants will be Sofia Torell, niece of Gunilla Bergström, who is the mother of the Alfons Åberg books, and author Per Bloch and illustrator Cato Thau-Jensen, who created the Halvfar picture book. Interviewing them will be Mia Österlund, Associate Professor in Comparative Literature at Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland.
Discussion: The role of the father in Nordic picture books
How are fathers depicted in picture books? In the run-up to Father’s Day, we’re discussing how the role of the father is conveyed in picture books and how it’s changed over the years.
