The Norwegian Drawing Center's annual project "Illustrators in Residence" (IIR) aims to highlight the high quality and diversity that exists in Norwegian illustration art. By letting selected actors from the field make Tegnerforbundet's project room their own for three weeks in May, the public will gain insight into various work processes and greater knowledge of the field.
The first "Illustrator in Residence" in May is Hilde Hodnefjeld.
Hilde Hodnefjeld (1966) will be working on a comic book project during her project week at Tegnerforbundet. Here, the audience will gain insight into the work behind a comic book.
The story that Hodnefjeld wants to work with is for young people between the ages of 10 and 14. It tells the story of Kitty, a girl of about 12 years in 2018, who reads Anne Frank's diary. Kitty has a grandmother. The grandmother hides something from Kitty, and there is something about that copy of Anne Frank's diary, which Kitty has stolen from her grandmother's bookshelf. Kitty gets in touch with Anne Frank through the diary. It turns out that her own grandmother was Anne Frank's neighbor before she and her family went into hiding in 1942. Unexplained things happen. Kitty ends up in 1942 and meets Anne Frank. She discovers who called the green police and who led to all the eight people hiding in the back building being arrested and sent to a concentration camp. The story is also about what friendship may or may not be.
Hilde Hodnefjeld, educated at the Norwegian School of Crafts and Design, is an award-winning illustrator of both her own and others' books. Among other things, she has written the picture books "Lykke og ulykken" (Cappelen Damm, 2019), "Tenk om ..." (Mangschou publishing house, 2012) and "If there were no cars" (Mangschou publishing house, 2011). Hodnefjeld has received several awards, including gold in the Visual competition for book covers and diploma for the picture book "In the house beyond". Hilde Hodnefjeld lives and works in Oslo.
