Rune Johan Andersson (born 5 March 1945) is a

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cartoonist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...

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and

children's writer Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader. Children's ...

. From 1970 to 1984 he worked as illustrator for the newspaper ''

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'', and later for ''

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''. Among his books are ''Glemmeboken'' from 2001, ''Rottenes plan og andre forunderlige fabler'' from 2003, and ''Ørkensang'' from 2012. He is represented at the

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, Riksgalleriet and other art galleries.

Awards

* 1979: Kultur- og kirkedepartementets tegneseriepris for barne- og ungdomslitteratur (culture and church department's cartoon prize for children's and youth literature) for ''Paradox'', with Jon Bing and Tor Åge Bringsværd * 2005: Riksmålsforbundets barne- og ungdomsbokpris for barneboka for ''Post'' (Children and youth book prize)

References

1945 births Living people Norwegian children's writers Norwegian cartoonists {{Norway-bio-stub