a b c "Raymond Briggs's Christmas Little Library – Raymond Briggs; | Foyles Bookstore". www.foyles.co.uk . Retrieved 11 August 2022. Archived copy". Archived from the original on 11 March 2016 . Retrieved 11 March 2016. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( link) Briggs won the 1992 Kurt Maschler Award, or the "Emil", both for writing and for illustrating The Man, a short graphic novel featuring a boy and a homunculus. The award annually recognised one British children's book for integration of text and illustration. [32] His graphic novel Ethel & Ernest, which portrayed his parents' 41-year marriage, won Best Illustrated Book in the 1999 British Book Awards. In 2016, it was turned into a hand-drawn animated film. [33] In 2012, he was the first person to be inducted into the British Comic Awards Hall of Fame. [34] Raymond Briggs – Person – National Portrait Gallery". National Portrait Gallery, London . Retrieved 10 August 2022.

Raymond Redvers Briggs was born on 18 January 1934 in Wimbledon, Surrey (now London), to Ernest Redvers Briggs (1900–1971), a milkman, and Ethel Bowyer (1895–1971), a former lady's maid-turned-housewife, who married in 1930. [9] [10] During the Second World War, he was evacuated to Dorset before returning to London at the end of the war. [11]

a b "Hans Christian Andersen Awards". International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY). Retrieved 28 July 2013. Briggs died of pneumonia at Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton on 9 August 2022, aged 88. [1] [13] Awards and honours [ edit ] The National Portrait Gallery, London, holds several photographic portraits of Briggs in its permanent collection. [41] a b c (Greenaway Winner 1973). Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. CILIP. Retrieved 14 July 2012. He was very amused when Liz Benjamin's three-year-old granddaughter announced one day at the dining table that “Raymond is not a normal person”. “The best compliment I have ever had,” he said. And words that he would like as his epitaph.

After briefly pursuing painting, he became a professional illustrator, [1] and soon began working in children's books. In 1958, he illustrated Peter and the Piskies: Cornish Folk and Fairy Tales, a fairy tale anthology by Ruth Manning-Sanders that was published by Oxford University Press. They would collaborate again for the Hamish Hamilton Book of Magical Beasts ( Hamilton, 1966). In 1961, Briggs began teaching illustration part-time at Brighton School of Art, which he continued until 1986; [14] [15] one of his students was Chris Riddell, who went on to win three Greenaway Medals. [16] Briggs was a commended runner-up for the 1964 Kate Greenaway Medal ( Fee Fi Fo Fum, a collection of nursery rhymes) [17] [a] and won the 1966 Medal for illustrating a Hamilton edition of Mother Goose. [1] According to a retrospective presentation by the librarians, The Mother Goose Treasury "is a collection of 408 traditional and well loved poems and nursery rhymes, illustrated with over 800 colour pictures by a young Raymond Briggs". [3]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. [3] [4] 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. [5] For his contribution as a children's illustrator, Briggs was a runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1984. [6] [7] He was a patron of the Association of Illustrators. [8] Early life [ edit ] Raymond Briggs, the British author and illustrator of the classic children’s books Father Christmas (1973), Fungus the Bogeyman (1977), and The Snowman (1978), died on 9 August, aged 88. Author-illustrator Raymond Briggs dies age 88:: NEWS". School Library Association . Retrieved 11 August 2022. The Bear is a 1998 British animated Christmas special directed by Hilary Audus. Based on the book of the same name by the author Raymond Briggs, the film was first broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom at Christmas 1998 and released in the United States as a Direct-to-Video release by Buena Vista Home Video in 1998. [1]

During the 1939-45 conflict, Briggs was evacuated, like three million other city-dwelling children, to the countryside, in his case to life on a farm in Dorset. His books are freighted with visual and verbal memories of the conflict, from the Anderson bomb shelter adopted for other uses in Father Christmas; to the nostalgia of the lead characters in When the Wind Blows, his anti-war satire on the dangers of nuclear apocalypse, for how they had got by during "the war". a b Bailey, Jason M. (10 August 2022). "Raymond Briggs, Who Drew a Wordless 'Snowman,' Dies at 88". The New York Times . Retrieved 10 August 2022. Jordan, Justine (21 December 2019). "Raymond Briggs: 'Everything takes so bloody long when you're old' ". The Guardian.Anita Silvey (editor), The Essential Guide to Children's Books and Their Creators (Mariner Books, 2002) ISBN 978-0-618-19082-9

Ug: boy genius of the stone age and his search for soft trousers". WorldCat. 2001 . Retrieved 11 August 2022. D. Martin, "Raymond Briggs", in Douglas Martin, The Telling Line: Essays on Fifteen Contemporary Book Illustrators (Julia MacRae Books, 1989), pp.227–42 Fungus the Bogeyman (2015) A 3-part television adaptation, featuring Timothy Spall and Victoria Wood shown on Sky1 in December 2015. [72] [73] Guardian book club: Week two: Raymond Briggs on Father Christmas's terrible job ...". Raymond Briggs with John Mullan. The Guardian. 20 December 2008. Aitkenhead, Decca (24 December 2016). "Raymond Briggs: 'There could be another world war. Terrifying, isn't it?' ". TheGuardian.com.Briggs's wife Jean, who had schizophrenia, died from leukaemia in 1973, two years after his parents' death. They did not have any children. [28]