Kristin Roskifte
is a Norwegian illustrator and picture book author. She has made nine picture books and illustrated a number of books for other authors.
Her book, “Alle sammen teller” (“Everybody Counts”) is being translated to more than 45 languages. In 2019 it was awarded the Nordic Council Children and Young people’s Literature Prize. It also won Gold Awards in Norwegian “Visuelt“ and “The Year’s Most Beautiful Books”, and was nominated for “Brageprisen” and the “World Ilustration Award”.
Roskifte has an MA in Illustration from Kingston University in London, and a BA in Illustration from Cambridge School of Art. She is a co-owner of Magikon Forlag, a small publishing company that specializes in picture books and books on visual culture.
She lives and works outside Oslo, with her husband and their three kids. She has a large collection of sketchbooks where she documents all parts of life on a daily (and nightly) basis.