Camilla Kuhn
About Camilla Kuhn
Camilla Kuhn has worked as author/illustrator of mischieavous childrens books for nearly two decades. Her book illustration work is humorous and naive, often detalied, somewhat messy but dynamic depictions of the struggles of a wide range of charachters. She mostly work in a combination of pencil drawings and digital coloring.
She aims to let the illustrations playfully bounce off of the verbal story of a book, and often adds surprising twists, different meanings or introduces independent visual sidestories with her illustrations.
Awards and Nominations
2025 The Collection of The Austrian Children’s and Young Adult Book Prize for Ridderne tar gull (Die Ritter holen Gold) by Bjørn F. Rørvik
2022 The Ministry of Culture’s Award for Children’s and Young Adults’ Literature – In Picture Book for Kåre og Marimba hjelper til by Markus Lantto
2022 Nynorsk Children’s Literature Prize for Kåre og Marimba hjelper til by Markus Lantto
2020 The Ministry of Culture’s Award for Children’s and Young Adults’ Literature – In Picture Book for Ulf er uvel by Rebecca Wexelsen
2020 Nominated to Trollkrittet – The Norwegian Writers for Children’s Debutant Prize for Dyras beste sjekketriks by Malin Hellebø
2019 Nominated to The Most Beautiful Books of the Year (by Grafill) for Samira og skjelettene by Camilla Kuhn
2013 Nominated to The Ministry of Culture’s Award for Children’s and Young Adults’ Literature / Picture Book for Samira og skjelettene by Camilla Kuhn