Finn Graff

{{short description|Norwegian illustrator (born 1938)}}

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Finn Graff (born 25 December 1938) is a Norwegian illustrator.

He was born in Wangerooge, Germany as a son of aviator Heinz Friedrich Wöhlecke (1909–1944) and translator Margit-Ruth Graff (1914–2000). He was an older brother of Jens Graff. He moved to Norway in 1946, but had lost his father to the war, and lived at the orphanage Christiania Opfostringshus from 1949 to 1954. He did however take higher education, at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry from 1959 to 1963. In 1960, he was hired as an illustrator and political cartoonist in the newspaper Morgenposten. From 1963 to 1988 he worked in Arbeiderbladet and from 1988 in Dagbladet. He has also illustrated several book covers. He is represented in the National Gallery of Norway.{{cite encyclopedia|year=|title=Finn Graff|encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon|first=Toril|last=Smit|editor=Helle, Knut|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|url=http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Finn_Graff/utdypning|language=Norwegian|accessdate=23 May 2010}} He won the Editorial Cartoon of the Year award in 2000 and 2005.{{cite web|url=http://www.nored.no/article.aspx?id=962|title=Avistegnerprisen|publisher=Association of Norwegian Editors|language=Norwegian|accessdate=15 June 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110414124233/http://www.nored.no/article.aspx?id=962|archivedate=14 April 2011}} He was decorated as Knight First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 2007.{{cite web|url=http://www.kongehuset.no/c34070/tildelinger.html?ar=&sok_navn=Finn+Graff&sok_yrke=&sok_sted=&arkiv=1|title=Tegner Finn Graff, Oslo, er utnevnt til Ridder av 1. klasse av Den Kongelige Norske St. Olavs Orden|publisher=Norwegian Royal House|language=Norwegian|accessdate=23 May 2010}}