- Source: Kjersti Synneva Moen
Kjersti Synneva Moen (born 8 July 1995) is a Norwegian illustrator and cartoonist. Her most notable work is Grip den føkkings dagen (2023), a comic book she received multiple awards and nominations for.
Life
Moen was born 8 July 1995 and grew up in Selbu, Norway. She moved from Selbu to attend Ole Vig Upper Secondary School in Stjørdal, where her education focused on music. She later got an education in drawing at Einar Granum Kunstfagskole in Oslo. She participated several times in UKM, a series of youth cultural events in Norway, where she would showcase a cappella and other musical ventures.
Career
Moen has done work for Gyldendal, Mental Helse Ungdom, Women's Front, the Norwegian Humanist Association, and the Norwegian Trekking Association. Aside from visual art, she is a vocalist in the band Rabagast.
In 2023, she published Grip den føkkings dagen through Aschehoug, which was met with positive feedback from critics, including critics writing for NRK, Empirix, and Dagens Næringsliv. Due to the release, she was awarded Pondusprisen in 2023, and Kulturdepartementets tegneseriepris (Norwegian, "the Ministry of Culture's Award for Comics") in 2024. She also received nominations for multiple awards, including Trollkrittet and SPROING-prisen.
Bibliography
Pappa er dustete (Ær, 2022) by Alba Shirin Jafari Dannveig – as illustrator
Grip den føkkings dagen (Aschehoug, 2023) – author and illustrator
References
External links
Official website (in Norwegian Bokmål)
Author biography from Aschehoug (in Norwegian Bokmål)
