Despite having insisted that ‘my lifetime hasn’t ended yet’, The Snowman author declares the BookTrust prize ‘an incredible honour’
Raymond Briggs, author of Fungus the Bogeyman and The Snowman, has been awarded a lifetime achievement award by children’s books charity BookTrust, despite the famously irascible artist and writer protesting last December that he regarded such honours as a “funny title, because come on, my lifetime hasn’t ended yet”.
Chosen by a panel of six judges that included children’s laureate Chris Riddell and How to Train Your Dragon creator Cressida Cowell, the award was given to Briggs in recognition of his body of work and “outstanding contribution” to children’s literature.
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