Lisa Aisato (b. 1981) is an award-winning and bestselling author, illustrator and artist. Her acclaimed books are published in more than 30 territories. The coffee table art book, All the Colors of Life, a bestseller printed in 170.000 copies in Norway, won the 2019 Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize and hit Der Spiegel’s bestseller list spring 2022. The German edition is printed in 150.000 copies. Aisato has illustrated the Christmas book The Snow Sister, written by Maja Lunde, which was a record-breaking success, printed in 250.000 copies in Norway, published in 30 languages, feature film produced by Anonymous Content Nordic and streamed on Netflix.  The Girl Who Wanted to Save the Books, written by Klaus Hagerup, is translated into 32 languages. In 2015 Lisa Aisato was named as one of the 10 best Norwegian writers under 35 by the Norwegian newspaper Morgenbladet. Aisato runs her own gallery at Hvaler islands on the Norwegian Southeast coast where she lives.

Awards:
The 2019 Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize

The 2019 School Library Literary Prize

“Ordknappen 2018” for her illustrations in “The Girl Who Wanted to Save the Books”, written by Klaus Hagerup.

The 2016 Sørlandet’s Literary Prize for her illustrations in the biography about Astrid Lindgren, written by Agnes-Margrethe Bjorvand.

Best animation short at Tribeca Film festival in 2017 for the animation movie “Odd is an Egg”, based on her picture book by the same title.

Nominations:
The 2020 Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize for “Lilly and the Sunkeeper” together with author Maja Lunde.

The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA) in 2015, 2016, 2018, and 2022

The 2019 “Bokslukerprisen” for The Snow Sister” together with author Maja Lunde.

The 2019 Ministry of Culture’s Illustrator Prize for “Being Young”, written by Linn Skåber.

The 2019 YA Prize for “Being Young”, written by Linn Skåber.

The H. C. Andersen Award in 2010 and 2016

The 2018 Amanda Prize for the animation movie “Odd is an Egg”, based on her picture book by the same title.

Nominated several times for the Brage Literary Prize, The Critics’ Prize and The Book Bloggers Prize.