Lars Lerin was born and raised in Munkfors, Värmland County.
He is considered to be the world’s now living leading artist in the watercolor technique, his art is represented in several official buildings and he has had exhibitions all over the world.
Lars Lerin is also a prolific author and has since his first book Utpost (1983), written and released more than fifty more.
He is awarded the August Prize, the Selma Lagerlöf Award and the Royal medal Litteris et Artibus, the August Prize and the Mårbacka Prize among many others. He is also carrying the honorary title Doctor of the University of Karlstad. For his TV-series he has been awarded the Crystal (Emmy) as TV personality of the year.
This year his exhibitions, apart from at Sandgrund will take place at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm and at the Silver Museum in the North of Sweden.
A new TV-series is as well aired by SVT, Swedish National Television.
Come with us to Brazil and the village of Coroatá, where Junior grew up as a little boy with his mother, father and nine siblings. It will be an exciting journey on bumpy roads and sun-scorched village streets, among deadly anacondas, crocodiles and chattering monkeys in the jungle. And there there is the aunt who lives in a hut in the middle of the tropical forest with the animals around her, at peace with each other – almost like in Paradise, Junior thinks! A warm story, full of life, richly illustrated with Lars Lerin’s outstanding watercolors.
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