Bjørn Ousland
About Bjørn Ousland
Bjørn Ousland was born 1959 in Oslo and educated at The Kubert School, New Jersey USA. He has been working as an illustrator and cartoonist since 1985. From around 2000 he predominately is writing and illustrating children´s books and comics for kids. He used to work mostly with a mix of watercolors, colored pencils and pastels, but in the recent years he switched to working with pencils on paper and adding colors and textures in Photoshop. Most of his fictional work involves a mix of humor and suspense. He also made a series of illustrated non-fiction books about polar explorers, which was translated into 12 languages.
Awards and Nominations
2025 Nominated for Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
2024 School Librarians’ Association Literature Prize
2021 Nominated for The Ministry of Culture’s Comic Book Award
2015 The Ministry of Culture’s Special Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature
2014 Nominated for The Ministry of Culture’s Comic Book Award
2013 Nominated for The Ministry of Culture’s Comic Book Award
2007 The Brage Prize
2003 Nominated for The Brage Prize
2002 The Ministry of Culture’s Comic Book Award
2001 Ministry of Culture Illustration Award
1999 The Ministry of Culture’s Comic Book Award
1990 SPROING-Prize – Best Norwegian Comic
1988 The Ministry of Culture’s Comic Book Award
1985 The Ministry of Culture’s Comic Book Award