Øyvind Torseter – författare

An astonishing, high-adventure graphic novel that playfully remixes The Odyssey, Moby Dick, and more, from Norway’s greatest cartoonist.Fresh out of a job, with his apartment slated for demolition and his possessions seized, Mulysses is in need of $5,000—and fast! As luck would have it, he crosses paths just in time with a wealthy collector, who offers him the fortune he seeks if he succeeds in bringing back the world’s biggest eye, fabled to grant its owner enormous power. Like Ulysses, Ishmael, and many others before him, Mulysses takes to the sea in search of both adventure and himself.In addition to his high comedic, cartoonist talents, Øyvind Torseter is one of Norway’s most acclaimed illustrators. This is his seventh book with Enchanted Lion.

A fun twist on an old fairytale called "The Troll with No Heart," The Heartless Troll is about a troll who's hidden his heart and the seventh son of a king who goes in search of his six brothers. The young man's journey brings him to a mountain, a captive princess, and a terrifying troll. The illustrations are by turns fanciful and lovely as well as dark and terrifying, but a continuous thread of good humor and playfulness runs thorugh the whole story. Oyvind Torseter is a Norwegian artist, illustrator, comic book artist, and author. Torseter studied illustration at the Merkantilt Institutt in Oslo, the School for Graphic Design in Oslo, and the Kent Institute of Art and Design in England. In addition to his own books, Torseter has illustrated books by other authors, including My Father's Arms Are a Boat by Stein Erik Lunde.

Surprising, comic, and thought-provoking, this book, from Norway’s greatest cartoonist, Øyvind Torseter, which has a splendid physical hole punched right through it, tells the story of a mysterious, missing hole and the hilarious search for it!Set directly after the events of The Hole, in which a hole inexplicably appeared, was sent to a lab for testing, and was then returned to its hapless owner, here the same hole now goes missing, leading its owner on a quest to find it and bring it home. Full of twists and turns, curious characters, and many surprises, this is an urban quest for the ages that evokes laughter, while sparking questions and wonder alike.In these pages, Norwegian artist and illustrator Øyvind Torseter recontextualizes the titular hole as an array of circular objects, masterfully blurring the line between absence and presence and delivering an entertaining and thought-provoking read from cover to cover.

Den namnlösa huvudpersonen i "Hålet" hittar just ett hål i sin nya lägenhet. Ett hål som dessutom har den egenheten att det flyttar på sig hela tiden. Men ingen av de experter mannen söker upp för att få hjälp har någon förklaring. Ibland måste man kanske bara acceptera att saker är som de är. Øyvind Torseters "Hålet" blandar surrealism och vardaglighet på ett väldigt finurligt vis ? hålet ifråga går förstås rätt igenom den fysiska boken också. Boken utsågs till årets vackraste i Norge 2012. ?En fantastisk idé som är genomförd på ett formidabelt sätt?, framhöll juryn. ?Det känns som om formen och innehållet kommit till parallellt.? "Hålet" nominerades även till 2012 års Bragepris. Dess jury skrev: ?'Hålet' är en originell och häpnadsväckande bilderbok som gör det möjligt för den egna fantasin att flöda fritt. Texten är full av humor och anspelningar och är en njutning för läsare i alla åldrar. 'Hålet' är en bok som tänjer på gränserna och som man aldrig blir riktigt klar med?.