Kristin Roskifte
About Kristin Roskifte
Kristin Roskifte is a prolific sketchbook user, and have documented life daily for 30 years. She has written and illustrated ten picture books. They are based on ideas and drawings from her sketchbooks, she does the originals in Adobe Photoshop using Apple Pencil on iPad Pro. Her aim for her illustrations is to be full of details and humour, inviting the readers to look closely and to discover new things every time they revisit the images. Roskifte`s work is all about curiosity and the joy of looking. Her book Everybody Counts has been translated into 50 languages, and it has enabled her to see and draw more of the world.
Awards and Nominations
2025 Nominated for The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
2025 Selected for BRAW Amazing Bookshelf (Sustainability edition)
2024 Blant dPictus’ 100 – In outstanding picture books
2024 Among White Ravens’ selections
2023 Visual Award by Grafill- Gold in Teaching, factual and informational illustration
2022 Nominated for German Youth Literature Prize (Germany)
2021 Wenjin Book Award (China)
2021 Alumni Contribution to Culture Award (awarded by Anglia Ruskin University/Cambridge School of Art)
2020 Kirkus Starred review
2020 Gold Award by California Reading Association’s Eureka!
2019 The Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize
2019 Shortlisted for The World Illustration Award (awarded by Association of Illustrators/ UK)
2019 Visual Award by Grafill – Gold in fiction/ picture book
2019 The Most Beautiful Books of the Year (awarded by Grafill) – Gold in picture book
2019 Among White Ravens’ selections
2018 Nominated for The Brage Prize – Fiction/ Children’s and Young Adult Books
2003-2017 Visual Award by Grafill – 6 Gold, 2 Silver, 5 Diplomas and 5 Nominations
2003-2017 The Most Beautiful Books of the Year (awarded by Grafill)- 2 Gold and 2 Diplomas