page_title: Steffen Kverneland
section_title: The clenched fists
hierarchical_section_title: Steffen Kverneland / Adaptation of literary works / The clenched fists
caption_attribution_description: Norsk bokmål: Forside av tegneseriealbumet De knyttede never av tegneserieskaperen Steffen Kverneland. Basert på Øvre Richter Frichs roman fra 1911English: front cover of the comics album De knyttede never (=The clenched fists) by the Norwegian comics artist Steffen Kverneland. Based on the novel with the same title by Øvre Richter Frich (1911)
context_page_description: Steffen Kverneland is a Norwegian illustrator and comics writer. He was born in Haugesund, and settled in Oslo from 1987. He has specialized on creating comics series based on classical literature. Among his early albums are De knyttede never from 1993 based on a novel by Øvre Richter Frich, and four volumes of Amputerte klassikere.
  He was awarded the Brage Prize for non-fiction in 2013, for the biography Munch, a collection of his albums based on the life of painter Edvard Munch. Munch has been translated into several languages, including French, Dutch, German, Polish, Danish and Korean, supported by Norla, the foundation for Norwegian Literature Abroad.
context_section_description: De knyttede never (English: The clenched fists) is an action novel from 1911, written by Øvre Richter Frich. It is the first of a series of 21 novels about the character "Jonas Fjeld", an athletic physician and adventurer. Kverneland had the first pages of his adaptation published in the magazine TEGN in 1991. The album was issued in 1993, and earned him the Sproing Award for best Norwegian comics series in 1993.
  During the creation process Kverneland had to do some historical research in order to get buildings, interior, clothing, historical setting etc. as correct as possible. He visited Bank of Norway to prepare for the bank robbery scene, and studied photos of old trains for the scenes from the recently opened Bergen Line. The "new" City hall, location for a reception held for the South Pole Expedition described in the novel, was pure fictional, as there was no new City Hall in Oslo in 1911.
caption: Front cover of the comics album De knyttede never from 1993.
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