Ida Sunniva Sandaas Skjelbakken (born October 23, 1979) is a Norwegian author and
illustrator
An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea. The illustration may be intended to clarify complicat ...
. She was born in
Lørenskog and grew up in
Tangen
Tangen is a village in Stange Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located near the shores of the large lake Mjøsa, about south of the village of Stangebyen. The small village of Espa lies about to the south of Tangen.
...
in
Stange
is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Hedemarken. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Stangebye ...
,
Hedmark.
Her first novel series
Krøniken om Ylva Almwas published in July 2012 by Schibsted Forlag and ended with 25 books in 2016.
In 2014 her boo
Fangen på celle nr. 17 based on letters she wrote from prison, was published by Schibsted Forlag, and as a second edition by Bladkompaniet in 2016. In 2018 her novel serie
Nattergalenwas published by Bladkompaniet and ended with 10 books.
She has studied art in
Villa Faraldi
Villa Faraldi ( lij, Villa Faródi) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Imperia in the Italian region Liguria, located about southwest of Genoa and about northeast of Imperia. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 466 and ...
, Italy, and now makes book cover illustrations, editorial artwork, and illustrations for weekly magazines and children's book. She is mostly known for her illustrations for the children's book series Trollheim by
Arne Lindmo, for which she wo
Kulturdepartementets illustrasjonspris2022. She is also a certified bodyguard, and has been an
uchi-deshi
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''kabuki'', ''rakugo'', ''shogi'', '' igo'', ''aikido'', ''sumo'', ''karate'' and other modern Japanese martial ...
Karate
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student in
Okinawa, Japan.
She has lived in Eskilstuna in Sweden, Ratzeburg in Germany,
The Dominican Republic, Cambridge in the United Kingdom, Szakadát in
Hungary,
Neaples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...
,
Villa Faraldi
Villa Faraldi ( lij, Villa Faródi) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Imperia in the Italian region Liguria, located about southwest of Genoa and about northeast of Imperia. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 466 and ...
,
Catanzaro and
Agropoli in Italy. In Neaples she worked for a
private investigator agency. She moved to Miami in the United States in 2005. In August 2011, she was arrested on firearms charges and for having a double identity. She was eventually deported from the United States upon her release from prison in 2012.
References
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Living people
20th-century Norwegian novelists
21st-century Norwegian novelists
Norwegian women novelists
Norwegian illustrators
Norwegian women illustrators
1979 births
People from Stange
People from Lørenskog