Raymond Briggs
Kate Greenaway Medal
1966, 1973
Boston Globe–Horn Book Award
1979
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), Father Christmas (1973) was named one of the top-ten winning works, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite.
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