Stian Hole (born 20 March 1969, in

Tønsberg Tønsberg (), historically Tunsberg, is a List of towns and cities in Norway, city in Tønsberg Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. It is located about south-southwest of the capital city of Oslo on the western coast of the Oslofjord near ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...

) is a Norwegian

graphic designer A graphic designer is a practitioner who follows the discipline of graphic design, either within companies or organizations or independently. They are professionals in design and visual communication, with their primary focus on transforming ...

, illustrator and writer of

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Biography

He has made numerous book covers and four picture books which have gained national and international recognition. His book ''Garmann's Summer'' earned him an Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award in 2009. In 2009, he won the

Nordic Children's Book Prize The Nordic Children's Book Prize (Danish: Nordisk Skolebibliotekarforenings Børnebogspris also called Nordisk Børnebogspris) is a children's literary prize which was established in 1985 by the Nordic Association of School Librarians (Nordisk Skole ...

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References

External links

A Conversation with Norwegian Author-Illustrator, Stian Hole (2014)
* Norwegian children's book illustrators Norwegian children's writers Living people 1969 births Writers from Tønsberg {{illustrator-stub