page_title: Steffen Kverneland
section_title: Olaf Gulbransson
hierarchical_section_title: Steffen Kverneland / Comics biographies / Olaf Gulbransson
caption_attribution_description: Norsk bokmål: Forside av Olaf G, om den kjente norske kunstneren Olaf Gulbransson, av tegneserieskaperne tegneserieskaperne Steffen Kverneland og Lars FiskeEnglish: front cover of the comics album Olaf G, about the Norwegian artist Olaf Gulbransson; by the Norwegian comics artists Steffen Kverneland and Lars Fiske
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: He published the album Olaf G. in 2004, a cooperation with Lars Fiske. The album is an adaptation of the biography of illustrator and cartoonist Olaf Gulbransson, and won the Sproing Award for 2004, in addition to other prizes. It was translated into German language, and the translation into Swedish resulted in the comics award Urhunden in 2008.
caption: Front cover of the comics album Olaf G. from 2004.
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