Akin Duzakin is an illustrator and author who studied industrial design in Turkey before moving to Norway where he majored in visual communication at Oslo’s National Academy of Craft and Art Industry. Since then Duzakin has illustrated fifty children’s books. He is passionately interested in the picture-book genre and its ability to engage the whole family. He has received a number of awards for his work, including a Special Mention for the BolognaRagazzi Award for the original Norwegian edition of Why Am I Here? by Constance Ørbeck-Nilssen. He has been nominated twice for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.