Per Elvestuen (born 14 August 1962) is a Norwegian illustrator.
He was born in
Gjøvik
Gjøvik () is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Gjøvik (town), town of Gjøvik. Some of the villages in Gjøvik include Biri, Norway, Biri, Bybrua, ...
as a brother of
Ola Elvestuen. He worked for the newspaper ''
Dagens Næringsliv
''(DN)'' ( Norwegian for "''Today's Business Affairs''"), is a Norwegian daily newspaper focusing on economic and business current affairs. it is the third-largest newspaper in Norway by circulation. Editor-in-chief is Janne Johannessen, appoint ...
'' from 1988 to 2009, then for ''
E24 Næringsliv
''E24'', formerly ''E24 Næringsliv'' and ''N24'', is a Norwegian, online business newspaper originally launched on 18 April 2006, merged with ''Dine Penger'' in 2013, and rebranded as ''E24'' in 2019.
History
During the first three years of op ...
''. He is also a communications adviser for the company Aabø & Co. He published a
children's book
Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. In addition to conventional literary genres, modern children's literature is classified by the intended age of the reade ...
in 1995, and two collections of his editorial cartoons, in 1999 and 2004.
He won the ''Editorial Cartoon of the Year'' award in 2003.
References
1962 births
Living people
20th-century Norwegian illustrators
21st-century Norwegian illustrators
Norwegian political artists
Norwegian children's book illustrators
Norwegian editorial cartoonists
Norwegian caricaturists
People from Gjøvik
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