Shirley Hughes
English author and illustrator
Died when: 94 years 224 days (1135 months)Star Sign: Cancer
Winifred Shirley Hughes CBE (16 July 1927 – 25 February 2022) was an English author and illustrator.She wrote more than fifty books, which have sold more than 11.5 million copies, and illustrated more than two hundred.
As of 2007, she lived in London.Hughes won the 1977 and 2003 Kate Greenaway Medals for British children's book illustration.In 2007, her 1977 winner, Dogger, was named the public's favourite winning work of the award's first fifty years.
She won the inaugural BookTrust lifetime achievement award in 2015.She was a recipient of the Eleanor Farjeon Award.She was a patron of the Association of Illustrators.
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