Dear Rikard

Ask, Lene translated by Agnes Scott Langeland

ISBN 10: 0992908256 / ISBN 13: 9780992908256

Published by Centrala, London, 2015

About this Item

approx 84 unnumbered pages bw graphic novel style illustrations throoughout. Front cover a little creased otherwise clean and sound.

Seller Inventory # 042785

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dear Rikard
• Publisher: Centrala, London
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0992908256
• ISBN 13: 9780992908256
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art
  • Travel & Exploration

About this title

Synopsis

Rikard Jakobsen was born in1885 on Madagascar, where his parents were missionaries. When he was six years old, the family moved back home to Stavanger. After Rikardā€™s mother died, his father remarried and returned to missionary service with his new wife. Rikard and his older sister and brother, Elisabeth and Jakob, were left in Stavanger, at Solbakken, a childrenā€™s home for missionary children. Rikard was eight when his father left, and ten years were to pass before they saw each other again.

About the Author

Lene Ask (b. 1974) is a Norwegian comics and childrenā€™s book writer. Though initially a photographer, since the debut of her graphic novel Hitler, Jesus og farfar in 2006 Ask has worked extensively in the field of comics and illustrations. Lene AskShe works with both documentary and fiction and has published 3 graphic novels with the Norwegian publisher Jippi Forlag, and 6 childrenā€™s book at Gyldendal Forlag.