Lisa Aisato
About Lisa Aisato
Lisa Aisato (born 1981) is an awarded and critically acclaimed author, illustrator and artist. Throughout her career she has published seven books of her own, among them the award-winning picture book for adults All the Colors of Life. In addition she has illustrated more than 40 books for other authors, most well-known is perhaps the hugely successful The Snow Sister written by Maja Lunde. The books have been adapted for theatre and film and translated into more than 40 languages. Lisa’s artwork can be found in homes all over the world and in her own gallery at Hvaler archipelago on the Norwegian South East coast where she lives and works.
Lisa Aisato’s images are made by mixing physical media and digital drawing. She usually starts on paper or canvas and at some point digitises the sketch in order to finish the image with her digital pen/pencil and drawing board. This means the «original» is a digital file and the prints are the only physical representation. This way of creating the actual image is often referred to as DGA – Digital Graphic Artwork.
Awards and Nominations
2025 Nominated for The Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize with Maja Lunde for Tordendronningen
2025 Nominated for The ARK Children’s Book Award for Tordendronningen with Maja Lunde
2021 Nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2022
2020 Nominated for The ARK Children’s Book Award for Solvokteren with Maja Lunde
2020 Awarded Gold in the Holiday Book category at the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards for The Night of His Birth with Katherine Paterson
2020 Nominated for The Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize with Maja Lunde for Solvokteren
2019 Nominated for The Norwegian Book Blogger Award for Snøsøsteren with Maja Lunde
2019 Nominated for The Norwegian Book Blogger Award for Snokeboka
2019 The School Librarian Association’s Literature Award
2019 Nominated for The Avid Reader Award for Snøsøsteren with Maja Lunde
2019 The Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize for Livet (Illustration)
2019 Nominated for The Norwegian Youth Literature Award (Uprisen) with Linn Skåber for Til ungdommen
2019 Nominated for Ministry of Culture’s Illustration Award for Til ungdommen
2018 The film Odd er et egg nominated for Amandaprisen (Best Short Film)
2018 Nominated for The Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize with Maja Lunde for Snøsøsteren
2018 Nominated for The Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize with Linn Skåber for Til ungdommen
2018 Nominated for The ARK Children’s Book Award with Maja Lunde for Snøsøsteren
2018 Ordknappen-Prize for Jenta som ville redde bøkene
2017 The film Odd er et egg won Best Animated Short Film at the Tribeca Film Festival
2016 Nominated for the International Hans Christian Andersen Award
2016 Sørlandets Literature Prize together with Agnes-Margrethe Bjorvand for Astrid Lindgren
2016 Nominated for The Norwegian Book Blogger Award 2015 with Agnes-Margrethe Bjorvand for Astrid Lindgren
2016 The Literature Prize from the Fredrik Halvorsen Legacy
2016 Teskjekjerringprisen (The Mrs. Pepperpot Award ) with Haddy Njie for Snart sover du
2015 Nominated for Norwegian Literary Critics’ Prize for Best Children’s and Young Adult Book for En fisk til Luna
2015 Named one of the ten best authors under 35 by Morgenbladet
2015 Nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2016
2014 Nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2015
2014 Nominated for The Norwegian Book Blogger Award 2013 for Fugl
2014 Nominated for The Brage Prize for En fisk til Luna
2012 Nominated for The Brage Prize with Gaute Heivoll for Svalene under isen
2010 Nominated for Norwegian Literary Critics’ Prize for Best Children’s and Young Adult Book for Odd er et egg
2010 Nominated for The Brage Prize with Anna Bache-Wiig for Don Fridtjof