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{{Short description|Norwegian writer and illustrator}}
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[[File:Kjell Aukrust - 1965.jpg|thumb|Kjell Aukrust (1965)]]
[[File:Aukrustsenteret facade.jpg|thumb|350 px|Aukrustsenteret (now Huset Aukrust)]]
'''Kjell Aukrust''' (19 March 1920 – 24 December 2002) was a [[Norway|Norwegian]] author, poet, artist and humorist. Aukrust is principally known for his Flåklypa stories and Flåklypa drawings.<ref name=nkl>{{cite web|url=https://nkl.snl.no/Kjell_Aukrust|title= Kjell Aukrust|website= Norsk Kunstnerleksikon |access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Aukrust was born in [[Alvdal Municipality]] in [[Hedmark]], Norway as a son of [[Lars Olsen Aukrust]] (1886–1965) and Louise Walmsnæss (1887–1973). His father was rector at Storsteigen Agricultural School in Alvdal. He was a nephew of poet [[Olav Aukrust]], brother of [[Odd Aukrust]], a noted economist who was responsible for research at [[Statistics Norway]]. He was married to Kari Holter in 1947.<ref name=nbl>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Kjell Aukrust|encyclopedia=[[Norsk biografisk leksikon]]|first=Finn|last=Jor|authorlink=Finn Jor|editor=Helle, Knut|editor-link=Knut Helle|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|url=http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Kjell_Aukrust/utdypning|language=Norwegian|accessdate=17 December 2011}}</ref>
He trained at the [[Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry]] 1938–42. In 1939, one of his drawings was accepted at the [[Høstutstillingen|Autumn Exhibition]] in Oslo. His memoirs of his childhood in Alvdal appeared in the series of three books: ''Simen'', ''Bonden'' and ''Bror Min'' published in 1958, 1964 and 1960.<ref name="nkl"/>

==Career==
[[File:Velkommen til Flåklypatoppen.jpg|thumb|Solan Gundersen and Ludvig at Flåklypatoppen]]
He is most famous for his creation of the fictional Norwegian village of Flåklypa populated with a cast of idiosyncratic characters.
He created the Flåklypa society while being an illustrator and columnist for the magazine ''Mannskapsavisa'', with characters such as Reodor Felgen, Solan Gundersen, Ludvig and Emanuel Desperados. His column, which was modelled as a collection of satirical newspaper articles, was eventually renamed ''Flåklypa Tidende''.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Flåklypa |encyclopedia=[[Store norske leksikon]] |editor-last=Bolstad | editor-first=Erik |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Flåklypa |language=Norwegian |accessdate=29 December 2018}}</ref> This setting was the basis of the 1975 [[Stop motion|animated]] film "[[Flåklypa Grand Prix]]", directed by [[Ivo Caprino]]. The film was the first full-length animated feature in Norway, became an international success and has been translated into more than seventy languages. In Britain it is known as "Pinchcliffe Grand Prix". The protagonist Reodor Felgen (English version: Theodore Rimspoke) has become synonymous in Norway with [[Rube Goldberg]] type contraptions.<ref name="nkl"/>

Some of the characters who populated the village of Pinchcliffe were also the basis for the first full-length hand drawn animated feature in Norway, "Solan, Ludvig og Gurin med reverompa".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166350/|title=Gurin with the Foxtail on IMDB|publisher=IMDb|language=no}}</ref> Released in 1998, this movie takes place in [[Oslo]] and [[Alvdal Municipality|Alvdal]]. In Britain it is known as ''[[Gurin with the Foxtail]]''.<ref name="nkl"/>

==Huset Aukrust==
In 1996, Aukrustsenteret (now Huset Aukrust) was opened in Alvdal. The center was designed by architect [[Sverre Fehn]]. In addition to Aukrust's drawings, Huset Aukrust contains many of Kjell Aukrust's imaginative technical devices, such as a model of Il Tempo Gigante, the car featured in the film ''Flåklypa Grand Prix''.<ref name="nkl"/><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.aukrust.no/om-kjell-aukrust/ |title= Kjell Aukrust|website= Aukrustsenteret|access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb name|id=0042013|name=Kjell Aukrust}}
*{{in lang|no}} [http://www.aukrust.no Huset Aukrust website]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110718144342/http://www.aukrust.no/pano/index.html Virtual tour of Huset Aukrust]

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