Briggs, Raymond Redvers (1934- )

English writer and illustrator of children's books including Father Christmas (1973) and The Snowman (1979), both of which use his hallmark comic-strip format and have been made into successful animated films.

Other works include Father Christmas Goes on Holiday (1975), Fungus the Bogeyman (1977), Gentleman Jim (1980), When the Wind Blows (1983), and The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman (1985). He was awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1966 and 1973, and won Children's Author of the Year in 1992.

He studied art at the Wimbledon School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art, both in London.