Inger Edelfeldt (born 1956 in Stockholm) is a Swedish author and translator, as well as the illustrator of many books. She made her debut in 1977 with the book Duktig pojke ("Good Boy"). She has written around 20 books since then, most of which are novels, short stories, poetry books, and books for children and young people. She won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1987. She is internationally known as a Tolkien illustrator through her paintings for the 1985 Tolkien Calendar. She has also painted the covers of several Swedish editions of J.R.R. Tolkien´s books in the seventies and eighties.