Authors & Illustrators
Anthony Browne
Anthony Browne is one of the most popular and stylistically distinctive children’s book artists, with a number of outstanding titles to his credit including "Gorilla" and "The Tunnel". Anthony grew up in a village called Hipperholme, in Yorkshire. He loved art and would spend hours drawing with his father. After he left school, Anthony studied graphic design and then went on to paint the insides of people's bodies for medical textbooks. He found this fascinating, but after three years found that the work was becoming repetitive and instead began designing greetings cards. This in turn led him to illustrating children's books - his book "Gorilla" began life as a picture on a birthday card. Anthony lives in Kent and has two grown-up children. Anthony has won many prizes for his work, including the Kate Greenaway Medal (twice) and the Kurt Maschler Award (three times). In 2000, he received the highest international honour for illustration, the Hans Christian Andersen Award, for his services to children's literature - the first British illustrator to win the prize since 1956. He has also been announced as the 2009-2011 Children's Laureate, which is an enormous honour, but mostly a testament to his body of work.
