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Quentin
Blake is one of Britain's best-loved and most successful illustrators and
children's authors
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Quentin
Blake is one of Britain's best-loved and most successful illustrators
and children's authors. His first drawings were published in Punch when
he was 16. He has illustrated over 300 books with writers such
as, Michael Rosen, Russell Hoban, Joan Aiken, John Yeoman and,
most famously of all, Roald Dahl. Quentin Blake writes and illustrates
his own books as well, creating such characters as Mister Magnolia,
Mrs Armitage and Clown. He has also illustrated classic books
for adults.
For many years he taught at the Royal College of Art , where he was head of the
Illustration Department from 1978 to 1986. He has won many awards and prizes,
and was made an CBE in 2005. According to The Guardian, he was 'already
a national institution' when he was appointed the first Children's Laureate in
1999. Since then he has had an additional career as an exhibition curator working in galleries
in London and Paris among others.
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