September 11, 1946

Anthony Browne (September 11, 1946) began his career with a Leeds College of Art BA (1967). When he won a Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's literature in 2000 it was the first time a British citizen had received this prestigious prize. He illustrated Alice in Wonderland, in 2015 and we quote him from a Guardian article on this project.

...Sir John Tenniel’s image of the duchess, based on a painting by the Flemish Renaissance painter Quintin Massys “A Grotesque Old Woman,” was difficult to get round, so I thought about a duchess and what she was, and if she had a baby who turned into a pig, what did that make her? I tried to show the porcine aspects of her - the bow in her hair that may remind us of a pig’s ears, the nostrils like a snout, she’s dressed in pink, and, if that’s not enough, there are even sausages round the cook’s apron.



The cat's on the rug.