Kjersti Synneva Moen (born 8 July 1995) is a Norwegian illustrator and cartoonist. Her most notable work is Grip den føkkings dagen (2023), a comic book she received multiple awards and nominations for.
Life
Moen was born 8 July 1995 and grew up in Selbu Municipality, Norway.[1][2][3] She moved from Selbu to attend Ole Vig Upper Secondary School in Stjørdal, where her education focused on music.[2] She later got an education in drawing at Einar Granum Kunstfagskole in Oslo.[4] She participated several times in UKM, a series of youth cultural events in Norway, where she would showcase a cappella and other musical ventures.[5][6]
In 2023, she published Grip den føkkings dagen through Aschehoug, which was met with positive feedback from critics, including critics writing for NRK,[8]Empirix,[9] and Dagens Næringsliv.[10] Due to the release, she was awarded Pondusprisen in 2023,[2][11] and Kulturdepartementets tegneseriepris (Norwegian, "the Ministry of Culture's Award for Comics") in 2024.[7][12] She also received nominations for multiple awards, including Trollkrittet[1][13] and SPROING-prisen.[14]
Bibliography
Pappa er dustete (Ær, 2022) by Alba Shirin Jafari Dannveig – as illustrator
Grip den føkkings dagen (Aschehoug, 2023) – author and illustrator