Reetta Niemensivu

Reetta Niemensivu is an illustrator, comic artist and a graphic designer who lives and works in Lahti, Finland. Reetta hasillustrated a great number of children’s books for various publishers in Finland. She is also the author of four comic albums published by Suuri Kurpitsa and she has self-published several small press publications.

She was nominated for the Finlandia Junior Prize for the children’s book Penelope and the Perilous Porridge in 2022. She has won the Comic Finlandia Award in 2019 for the album Sisaret 1918.

Photo credit: Henry Söderlund