🔎 Raymond Briggs pretended to be a curmudgeon, but I knew the real him
chocolate-box Sussex house, he was putting on the act that his literary agent – speaking about the announcement this morning of his death at the age of 88 – described as “professional curmudgeon”.sold 5.5 million copies worldwide before being turned into a beloved animation – pulled a bemused face in response to the pronunciation and spelling of my name.
The author was born in Wimbledon in 1934 and became a professional illustrator after studying at Wimbledon School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art. He insisted he “wasn’t interested in Briggs, a two-time winner of the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal, had been so impressed with the sketch, he had it pinned up in his studio, near the desk at which he had produced every one of his classics. But, as was typical of the man, as he looked across 26 miles of the Sussex Weald over to Ashdown Forest, he added: “It’s lovely, but you get a bit fed up of replying.
During the 2015 meeting, he referred to me dismissively as “the so-called journalist” – an epithet I have treasured ever since – told me visits from members of the press were a “f***ing nuisance”, and when I asked for a photo with him, he put on his trademark hangdog expression, which evaporated the moment the camera had clicked.thing at all” and was unimpressed with the commercialisation of his work. But one look around his home of 50 years was enough to disabuse you of that notion too.
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