Sissel Horndal
About Sissel Horndal
Sissel Horndal (born in 1970) is an artist, author and designer from northern Norway, where she lives and works.
She was educated at Nordland Art and Film School in Kabelvåg and at Bergen Academy of Art and Design and has been working with children’s books since 1998. Horndal was one of 17 nordic illustrators that participated in the traveling exhibition «Into the wind!», with children’s book illustrations (2016-2018). She was Festival artist at «Alfa og Omega», a literature festival for children in Bergen and guest at the International Literature Festival Berlin in 2019. Her books were presented during the norwegian Guest-of-Honour projects at the Frankfurt Book Fair (2019) and the Leipzig Book Fair (2025). For the time being Sissel Horndal is a master student at the The Norwegian Institute for Children’s Books at the Master’s Program in Creative Writing For Children and Youth and Dissemination.
Awards and Nominations
2023 Nominated for The Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize for Arvedávgeriikii (Text: Mary Ailonieida Sombán Mari)
2018 The Culture Prize for Sørfold
2018 Nominated to The Illustrator Prize for Giegačivga Filius/Gjøkungen Filius by June Sommer Strask
2015 The Blix Prize
2015 Nominated for The Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize for Duvro-guovža ja skohtermáđii (Text: Veikko Holmberg)
2013 Nominated for The Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize for Mánugánda ja Heike (Text: Signe Iversen)
2009 Nynorsk Literature Prize – Children’s literature
1999 Nominated for Nynorsk Literature Prize – Children’s literature