Shirley Hughes
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Shirley Hughes CBE |
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| Born |
16 July 1927 West Kirby, England |
| Occupation | Illustrator, writer |
| Nationality | British |
| Period | 1960–present |
| Genre | Children's literature, picture books |
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| Notable awards |
Kate Greenaway Medal 1977, 2003 |
Shirley Hughes, CBE (born 16 July 1927) is an English author and illustrator. She has written more than fifty books, which have sold more than 11.5 million copies, and has illustrated more than two hundred. As of 2007 she lives in London.
Hughes won the 1977 and 2003 Kate Greenaway Medals for British children's book illustration and her 1977 winner, Dogger, was named in 2007 the public favourite winning work of the first fifty years. She won the inaugural Booktrust lifetime achievement award in 2015. She is a patron of the Association of Illustrators.
Shirley Hughes was born in West Kirby, then in the county of Cheshire (now in Merseyside). The daughter of Liverpool store owner Thomas Hughes, she grew up in West Kirby on the Wirral. She has recalled from childhood that was inspired by artists like Arthur Rackham and W. Heath Robinson, and later by the cinema and the Walker Art Gallery. She was educated at West Kirby Grammar School, but she says that she was not a particularly good student academically, and when she was 16, she left school to study drawing and costume design at the Liverpool School of Art. She later also attended the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford.
After art school she moved to Notting Hill, London, and married John Vulliamy, an architect and etcher. They had three children together, including the journalist Ed Vulliamy and a daughter who is another children's book illustrator, Clara Vulliamy.
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