Ellen Ekman is a first-time director, cartoonist and illustrator. She is born in 1986, raised in Stockholm and educated at the School of Comics in Malmö, Sweden. She is best known for the strip series Little Berlin, which is a regular in 23 Swedish, Danish and Norwegian newspapers. The has series received the Nordic region’s largest series prize, the Stora Ponduspriset (2013), Albert Engström’s youth prize (2016) and the Swedish Series Academy’s Adamson statuette (2016). In addition to Little Berlin, Ellen also writes and illustrates children’s books.