Raymond Briggs
| Raymond Briggs | |
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| Born | Raymond Redvers Briggs 18 January 1934 Wimbledon, Surrey, England |
| Nationality | English |
| Area(s) | Artist, writer, cartoonist, graphic novelist, illustrator |
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Kate Greenaway Medal 1966, 1973 Horn Book Award 1979 British Book Award 1993, 1999 |
Raymond Redvers Briggs (born 18 January 1934) is an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author who has achieved critical and popular success among adults and children. He is best known in Britain for his story The Snowman, a book without words whose cartoon adaptation is televised and whose musical adaptation is staged every Christmas.
Briggs won the 1966 and 1973 Kate Greenaway Medals from the British Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject. For the 50th anniversary of the Medal (1955–2005), a panel named Father Christmas (1973) one of the top-ten winning works, which composed the ballot for a public election of the nation's favourite.
For his contribution as a children's illustrator Briggs was a runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1984.
He is a patron of the Association of Illustrators.
Raymond Briggs was born in Wimbledon, Surrey, England, to parents Ernest (1900-1971), a milkman, and Ethel Briggs (1895-1971), a former lady's maid-turned-housewife. He attended Rutlish School, then a grammar school, pursued cartooning from an early age and, despite his father's attempts to discourage him from this unprofitable pursuit, attended the Wimbledon School of Art from 1949 to 1953 to study painting, and Central School of Art to study typography.
From 1953 to 1955 he was a conscript in the Royal Corps of Signals at Catterick where he was made a draughtsman. After these two years of National Service, he returned to the study of painting at Slade School of Fine Art at University College, London, graduating in 1957.
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