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Shirley Hughes

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Shirley Hughes
Born	(1927-07-16) 16 July 1927 (age 85) West Kirby, Merseyside, UK
Occupation	Illustrator, writer
Nationality	British
Period	1960 to present
Genres	Children's literature
Notable work(s)	Dogger
Notable award(s)	Kate Greenaway Medal 1977, 2003

Shirley Hughes, OBE (born 16 July 1927, West Kirby, Cheshire, United Kingdom) is an English author and illustrator. She has written more than fifty books, which have sold more than 11.5 million copies, and has illustrated more than two hundred. She currently lives in London.^[1][2][3]

Hughes won the 1977 and 2003 Kate Greenaway Medals for British children's book illustration^[4][5][6] and her 1977 winner, Dogger, was named in 2007 the public favourite winning work of the first fifty years.^[7][8]

Contents [hide]

• 1 Early life
• 2 Work
• 3 Awards
• 4 See also
• 5 Notes
• 6 References
• 7 External links

Edit] Early life

The daughter of Liverpool store owner Thomas Hughes, Shirley grew up in West Kirby on the Wirral. She has stated that during childhood she was inspired by artists like Arthur Rackham and W. Heath Robinson, and later the cinema and the Walker Art Gallery.^[9] She was educated at West Kirby Grammar School, and studied drawing and costume design at the Liverpool School of Art, then the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford.^[2] Whilst at Oxford, she was encouraged to work in the picture book format and to make lithographic illustrations. Soon she was commissioned by Collins. After art school Hughes moved to Notting Hill, London,^[10] and married John Vulliamy, an architect and etcher, and they had three children together, including the journalist Ed Vulliamy and a daughter who is also a children's book illustrator, Clara Vulliamy.^[11]

Edit] Work

Hughes began her work during the 1950s and 1960s by illustrating other authors' books, such as My Naughty Little Sister by Dorothy Edwards and The Bell Family by Noel Streatfeild.^[10] In 1960 she wrote and illustrated her first book, Lucy & Tom's Day, which was made into a series of stories.^[1] She went on to write over fifty more stories, including a series about a young boy named Alfie, and his sister Annie-Rose, as well as the Olly & Me series.^[11] An exhibition of her work was put on at the Walker Art Gallery in 2003, which then moved to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.^[12][13]

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Dogger (1977), which she wrote and illustrated, was the first story by Hughes to be widely-published abroad^[9] and it was recognised by the Library Association's Kate Greenaway Medal as the year's best-illustrated children's book by a British subject.^[4] To celebrate the 70-year anniversary of the companion Carnegie Medal in 2007, it was named the public favourite of all Greenaway Medal winning works, the "Greenaway of Greenaways".^[8] (The public voted on a shortlist of ten, selected by a panel of experts from the 53 winning works 1955 to 2005.)^[7] Hughes won a second Greenaway Medal (no illustrator has yet won three) for Ella's Big Chance (2003), her own retelling of "Cinderella".^[5][6] She was also a commended runner up three times: for Flutes and Cymbals: Poetry for the Young (1968), a collection compiled by Leonard Clark; for Helpers (Bodley Head, 1975), which she wrote and illustrated; and for The Lion and the Unicorn (Bodley Head, 1998), which she wrote and illustrated (Highly Commended).^[14][a]

In 1984 Hughes won the Eleanor Farjeon Award for distinguished service to children's literature, in 1999 she was awarded an OBE, and in 2000 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She was also granted an Honorary Fellowship by Liverpool John Moores University^[10] and an Honorary Degree by the University of Liverpool in 2004.^[15]

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• Children's literature portal

Edit] Notes

1. ^ According to CCSU, some runners up through 2002 were Commended (from 1959) or Highly Commended (from 1974). There were 99 commendations of both kinds in 44 years; 31 high commendations in 29 years including Hughes and Jane Simmons in 1998.
• No one has won three Greenaway Medals. Among the fourteen illustrators with two Medals, Hughes is one of seven with one book named to the top ten (1955–2005); one of seven with at least one Highly Commended runner up (1974–2002); one of six with at least three commendations (1959-2002).

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