Nora Dåsnes (pronounced Dos-NESS), born in 1995, is an author and illustrator who graduated from Kingston University in London in 2017. CROSS MY HEART AND NEVER LIE is her debut as a writer and illustrator. For this work she received both Pondusprisen and the Norwegian Ministry of Culture’s prize for best comic. Nora recently received the 2022 Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize.