Akın Düzakın
Akin Düzakin (born 12 May 1961) is a Turkish-Norwegian illustrator and children's author. Düzakin has illustrated a wide range of children's books, including books about Tvillingbror and Tvillingsøster of Liv Marie Austrem for which he received the Brage Prize in 1995 and 1997. He also won the Unni Sands bildebokpris award in 1998.
Also recorded as Akin Duzakin
Akın Düzakın
- Born
- 1961 · Gaziantep.
- Nationality
- Norway
- Occupation
- illustrator · children's writer
- Education
- Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry
- Honours
- Bokkunstprisen · Brageprisen for Children's literature
- Languages
- Turkish · Norwegian
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Akın Düzakın. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q1772361
In this article
Biography
Furthermore, in 2006 he won the Bokkunstprisen award. Düzakin is known for acrylic paintings with poetic, naive motifs and clear shapes.
Akın Düzakın studied at Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry. The recorded working language is Turkish and Norwegian. Distinctions recorded are Bokkunstprisen and Brageprisen for Children's literature.
Text attribution
Licensing
Text attribution
Part of the biographical narrative on this page reuses licensed material. Its origin, revision and licence are recorded here.
The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Akin Düzakin, revision 1347676576 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witness
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 17 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Illustration
5,224 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Akira FujiiIllustrator
- Akira KanbeIllustrator
- Akira KojimaIllustrator
- Akira ToriyamaIllustrator
- Akmal ShaukatIllustrator
- Al BuellIllustrator
- Al HeldIllustrator
- Al PeaseIllustrator
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Akın Düzakın?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.