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.

Ellen Inger Maria Karnstedt Ekman, född 20 februari 1986, är en svensk illustratör och serieskapare. Hennes serie Lilla Berlin publiceras sedan 2013 dagligen i tidningen Metro. Ellen Ekman växte upp i Stockholm, där hon gick förberedande konstskolor och påbörjade en högskoleutbildning i konstvetenskap. År 2011 avbröt hon dessa studier och flyttade till Malmö för studier på Serietecknarskolan. Lilla Berlin valdes av Sydsvenska Dagbladet till gästserie 2011, en utmärkelse som tidningen ger till tre elever på Seriecenter årligen. Den gick då under namnet Möllan Deluxe. I januari 2013 började den gå som daglig serie i Metro, och serien publiceras också i Rocky Magasin. Kolik förlag gav januari 2014 ut en första samlingsbok med serien. Den är ritad i ett kvadratisk format, med de fyra bilderna placerade i två bildrader. Serien är en humoristisk skildring av storstadens hipsterkultur. Den beskriver en grupp storstadsmänniskor och vad dessa har för sig. Från att ursprungligen främst varit inspirerad av Malmö har den senare utvecklats till "ett hopkok av olika svenska stora städer". Serien är inspirerad av vad Ekman själv och folk i hennes egen ålder gör, och hon säger att hon fick ett annat perspektiv på Stockholm när hon flyttade därifrån. Däremot är det ingen självbiografisk serie.

Mats Jonsson is a Swedish comic creator. Debuting as a teenager in the Swedish fanzine society, Jonsson later became one of the prime Swedish representants for the autobiographical comic genre, inspired by American and Canadian comic creators such as Harvey Pekar, Seth, and Joe Matt. Mats Jonsson has been published in several Swedish newspapers and magazines. Many of his works have been collected in albums. Currently, Jonsson is the editor of the Swedish cultural magazine Galago.

Greta Thunberg is a Swedish climate activist who, as a schoolgirl at age 15, began protesting outside the Swedish parliament about the need for immediate action to combat climate change. She has since become an outspoken and world famous climate activist. She is known for having initiated the school strike for climate movement that formed in November 2018 and surged globally after the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP24) in December the same year. Her personal activism began in August 2018, when her recurring and solitary Skolstrejk för klimatet ("School strike for the climate") protesting outside the Swedish parliament in Stockholm began attracting media coverage, even though Sweden has already enacted "the most ambitious climate law in the world" – to be carbon neutral by 2045. On 15 March 2019, an estimated 1.4 million students in 112 countries around the world joined her call in striking and protesting. A similar event involving students from 125 countries took place on 24 May 2019. Thunberg has received various prizes and awards for her activism. In March 2019, three members of the Norwegian parliament nominated Thunberg for the Nobel Peace Prize. In May 2019, at the age of 16, she featured on the cover of Time magazine. Some media have described her impact on the world stage as the Greta Thunberg effect. Source: Wikipedia

Wangari Maathai was a Kenyan environmental and political activist. She was educated in the United States at Mount St. Scholastica and the University of Pittsburgh, as well as the University of Nairobi in Kenya. In the 1970s, Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on the planting of trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights. In 1984, she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, and in 2004, she became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for “her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.” Maathai was an elected member of Parliament and served as Assistant Minister for Environment and Natural Resources in the government of President Mwai Kibaki between January 2003 and November 2005.In June 2009, Maathai was named as one of PeaceByPeace.com's first peace heroes.Until her death, Maathai served on the Eminent Advisory Board of the Association of European Parliamentarians with Africa (AWEPA).Maathai died on 25 September 2011 in Nairobi while receiving ovarian cancer treatment. She was 71.Selected publications The Green Belt Movement: sharing the approach and the experience (1985) The bottom is heavy too: even with the Green Belt Movement : the Fifth Edinburgh Medal Address (1994) Bottle-necks of development in Africa (1995) The Canopy of Hope: My Life Campaigning for Africa, Women, and the Environment (2002) Unbowed: A Memoir (2006) Reclaiming rights and resources women, poverty and environment (2007) Rainwater Harvesting (2008) State of the world's minorities 2008: events of 2007 (2008) The Challenge for Africa (2009) Replenishing the Earth (2010) ISBN 978030759114 more info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wangari\_...