Lisa Aisato N'jie Solberg, pen name Lisa Aisato (born 23 July 1981) is a Norwegian visual artist, illustrator and author of

picture book A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children. With the narrative told primarily through text, they are distinct from comics, which do so primarily through sequential images. The images ...

Personal life

Aisato was born in

Kolbotn Kolbotn is an urban area in Norway's Nordre Follo county. Kolbotn is in the centre of the traditional district, Oppegård. The population is about 6,000. Kolbotn has several elementary schools, four middle schools and a high school. Town is loca ...

, Norway, to a Norwegian mother and

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n father. Among her siblings is her sister

Haddy N'jie Haddy Jatou Njie (formerly N'jie; born 25 June 1979 in Oslo) is a Norwegian singer, songwriter, writer and journalist. Her father is Gambian and her mother is Norwegian. She grew up in Kolbotn near Oslo and is the eldest of five siblings. Her yo ...

. Aisato resides in

Skjærhalden Skjærhalden is the administrative centre of Hvaler municipality, Norway. It is located on the island Kirkeøy Kirkeøy is the largest island in the Norwegian municipality of Hvaler. Its name means "church island" and is derived from Hvaler Church ...

Hvaler Hvaler is a municipality that is a group of islands in the southern part of Viken County, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Skjærhalden, on the island of Kirkeøy. The only police station in the municipali ...

Career

Aisato is educated at the art institutions and . She made her picture book debut in 2008, with ''Mine to oldemødre''. Further books are ''Odd er et egg'' from 2010, ''Fugl'' from 2013, and ''En fisk til Luna'' from 2014. She has illustrated books by others, including

Tor Åge Bringsværd Tor Åge Bringsværd (born 16 November 1939 in Skien, Norway) is an author, playwright, editor and translator. He is perhaps best known for his speculative fiction. Together with long-time partner Jon Bing, he is also considered as the first Nor ...

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(''Svalene under isen'' from 2012),

Maja Lunde Maja Lunde (born 1975), is a Norwegian writer. She made her literary debut in 2012 with the children's novel ' ("Across the Border"), a thriller set in 1942, where the protagonists Sarah and Daniel are Jews trying to escape murderous Nazi persec ...

(''Snøsøsteren'' from 2018), and

Linn Skåber Linn Skåber (born 31 March 1970) is a Norwegian actress, singer, comedian, text writer and TV personality. She made her stage début on Oslo Nye Teater (''Centralteatret'') in 1997, playing the title role in Goldoni's comic opera Mirandolina. ...

(''Til ungdommen'' from 2018). She regularly contributes with illustrations to the newspaper ''

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'' supplement ''Magasinet''. Aisato was awarded Teskjekjerringprisen in 2016, together with her sister and cowriter

, for the book ''Snart sover du. Et års god natt''. Her book ''Odd er et egg'' was basis for the

animated Animation is a method by which still figures are manipulated to appear as moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Today, most anim ...

short film A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes ...

'' Odd is an Egg'', directed by Kristin Ulseth, which won a prize for "Best animated short" at the

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in 2017. The film was also nominated for prizes at

Berlin International Film Festival The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festi ...

, and

Edmonton International Film Festival The Edmonton International Film Festival (EIFF) is a nine-day film festival in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, hosted at Landmark Cinemas at Edmonton City Centre. It is supported by and partnered with Telefilm Canada, Government of Alberta, Alberta Fo ...

. Her 2019 book ' ("Life – illustrated"), a collection of illustrations supplied with poetic texts, was met with good reviews and sales figures.

Awards

*2019,

Norwegian Booksellers' Prize The Norwegian Booksellers' Prize (''Bokhandlerprisen'') is a literature prize awarded annually by the Norwegian Booksellers Association after voting among all who work in Norwegian bookstores. The prize is awarded for one of the year's books in t ...

Referencesdag

{{DEFAULTSORT:Aisato, Lisa 1981 births Living people People from Kolbotn Norwegian people of Gambian descent Norwegian illustrators Norwegian women illustrators Norwegian children's book illustrators Norwegian writers