Where was Raymond Briggs Born?
Bron 18 January 1934 – 9 August 2022, Raymond Redvers Briggs CBE was a British illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist, and author. Achieving 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…
Bron 18 January 1934 – 9 August 2022, Raymond Redvers Briggs CBE was a British illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist, and author. Achieving 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, recognizing 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) was one of the top-ten winning works, which composed the ballot for a public election of the nation’s favorite.
Where was Raymond Briggs Born?
Briggs was born on 18 January 1934 in Wimbledon Park, 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. During the Second World War, he was evacuated to Dorset before returning to London at the end of the war.
Briggs attended Rutlish School, at that time 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.
