Jorunn Hanto-Haugse is a Norwegian orchardist, comic strip author, and illustrator. Hanto-Haugse grew up on the Utitun farm in

Djønno Djønno is a small village on the Oksen Peninsula in the municipality of Ullensvang in Norway's Hardanger district, in Vestland county. Geography Djønno lies near the sea on the west side of the Eid Fjord, about south of the ferry station in ...

. She received a bachelor's degree in art from the

University of Central England in Birmingham Birmingham City University (abbrev. BCU) is a university in Birmingham, England. Initially established as the Birmingham College of Art with roots dating back to 1843, it was designated as a polytechnic (United Kingdom), polytechnic in 1971 and gai ...

and she also studied premodern visual rhetoric at the University of Bergen. As an artist, she has had independent exhibitions in

Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...

and Vadsø, and she has also exhibited in New York, Liverpool, and Seoul. She became well known for her comic strips ''Reveland'', ''Reform 94'', and ''Skulen'', which are all written in

Nynorsk Nynorsk () () is one of the two written standards of the Norwegian language, the other being Bokmål. From 12 May 1885, it became the state-sanctioned version of Ivar Aasen's standard Norwegian language ( no, Landsmål) parallel to the Dano-Nor ...

. Her comic strips are regularly published in ''

Norsk Barneblad ''Norsk Barneblad'' (Norwegian: ''the Norwegian Children’s Magazine'') is a Norwegian children's magazine, issued monthly in Nynorsk. It was founded by Kristen Stalleland in 1887, under the name ''Sysvorti'', was renamed to ''Norskt Barneblad' ...

'', the street newspaper ''Megafon'', and ''

Hordaland Hordaland () was a county in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark, and Rogaland counties. Hordaland was the third largest county, after Akershus and Oslo, by population. The county government was the Hordaland County Municipal ...

''. They also previously regularly appeared in the newspaper ''EON'' and in the magazine ''Utdanning''. They are also reprinted by ''

Verdens Gang ''Verdens Gang'' ("The course of the world"), generally known under the abbreviation ''VG'', is a Norwegian tabloid newspaper. In 2016, circulation numbers stood at 93,883, having declined from a peak circulation of 390,510 in 2002. ''VG'' is n ...

'', ''

Bergens Tidende ''Bergens Tidende'' is Norway's fifth-largest newspaper, and the country's largest newspaper outside Oslo. ''Bergens Tidende'' is owned by the public company Schibsted ASA. Norwegian owners held a mere 42% of the shares in Schibsted at the end ...

'', ''Larsons Gale Verden'', ''

Pondus ''Pondus'' is a comic strip created by the Norwegian cartoonist Frode Øverli. Since its start in 1995, it has become one of the most successful comic strips in Scandinavia. It has been translated to several languages, including Danish, Engli ...

'', and the National Center for Nynorsk in Education. Since 2014, Hanto-Haugse has also grown fruit at the Utitun farm in Djønno.

References

External links

Jorunn Hanto-Haugse's homepage

The comic strip ''Reveland''

The comic strip ''Reform 94''

The comic strip ''Grammatikmannen''
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