(…) full of hope (…) few, or none, describe the depression of a nation and the tense atmosphere fall 2011 the way Nora Dåsnes does (…) A fine deed (…) Nora Dåsnes draws Oslo most likely the way Edvard Munch would have done today.
Kristine Isaksen, VG, 6 out of 6 stars

“Missed Calls is a small story that makes a major impression.”
Erik Barkman, Weekendavisen

“Nora Dåsnes has won the prize for her strong, credible and nuanced work about how the terrorist attack on 22 July 2011 affected the entire Norwegian nation.
This year’s prize winner has created a book which engages, touches and makes the reader reflect on collective, political societal issues alongside individual, existential questions.
The book’s visual language is sober and consistent, and carries a clear personal touch. Through pictures and text, the main character’s inner and outer life is depicted in an expressive and unsentimental way. The illustrations are fluid with an everyday melancholy, while the written language is both believable and spoken. Where the text withholds information, the pictures take over as the main narrator of the story. The use of colours is deliberate, effective and telling, and shows how the book’s creator is able to elegantly outline the boundary between past and present, between dreams and reality.
The story has a brutal setting and was inspired by bloodshed. The plot takes place in the period after 22 July 2011, when 77 people lost their lives in the terrorist attack on the island of Utøya and the government quarter in Oslo. Questions that run like a common thread throughout this graphic novel are: Who is the terrorist? Who am I? Who are we as a society? How do we return to normal life after such a tragedy?
The last two sentences in the book are simple but powerful responses to the cruel act of terrorism: “We only have each other. And we only have the present.””
The jury’s statement, Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize