Lars Fiske

{{Short description|Norwegian illustrator and cartoonist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = Lars Fiske | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date |1966|7|21|df=y}} | birth_place = Oslo | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | monuments = | other_names = | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = Comics artist | years_active = | employer = | organization = | known_for = | style = | television = | spouse = Anna Fiske | partner = | children = | father = | mother = | relatives = | awards = Sproing Award (2004, 2015) }}

'''Lars Fiske''' (born 21 July 1966) is a Norwegian comics writer and artist, and creator of picture books. He was born in Oslo and is married to illustrator and writer Anna Fiske.

[[File:Steffen Kverneland Olaf G.jpg|thumb |right |200 px |''Olaf G'', Fiske's and Steffen Kverneland's comics album on Olaf Gulbransson.]] Fiske created the album ''Matje: debutanten'' in 1996, and the follow-up ''Matje-ismen'' in 2000.<ref name=snl>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Lars Fiske |first2=Øyvind |last2=Holen |authorlink1=Jon Gisle |first1=Jon |last1=Gisle |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |editor-last=Godal | editor-first=Anne Marit | editor-link=Anne Marit Godal |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=http://www.snl.no/Lars_Fiske |language=Norwegian|accessdate=9 December 2014}}</ref> His album ''Olaf G.'' from 2004, which he created in cooperation with Steffen Kverneland, earned them the Sproing Award,<ref name=brage>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Sproing-prisen |first=Øyvind |last=Holen |authorlink=Øyvind Holen |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |editor-last=Godal | editor-first=Anne Marit | editor-link=Anne Marit Godal |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=http://www.snl.no/Sproing-prisen |language=Norwegian|accessdate=9 December 2014}}</ref> and the album was translated into Swedish and German language.<ref name=snl/> Fiske and Kverneland further cooperated on the series ''Kanon'', based on the lives of the painters Edvard Munch and Kurt Schwitters.<ref name=snl/>

Among his picture books is the prize-winning ''Kom, så løper vi'' from 2002 and ''På tre hjul'' from 2005.<ref name=snl/>

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