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Posy Simmonds

Writer / Cartoonist / Illustrator | * 08/09/1945 (78) | Cookham (United Kingdom (UK))
Rosemary Elizabeth "Posy" Simmonds MBE, FRSL (born 9 August 1945) is a British newspaper cartoonist, and writer and illustrator of both children's books and graphic novels. She is best known for her long association with The Guardian, for which she drew the series Gemma Bovery (2000) and Tamara Drewe (2005–06), both later published as books. Her style gently satirises the English middle classes and in particular those of a literary bent. Both Gemma Bovery and Tamara Drew feature a "doomed heroine", much in the style of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century gothic romantic novel, to which they often allude, but with an ironic, modernist slant. ()
Most frequent genres for this person: Romance / Love | Comedies | Drama

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Awards & Nominations for Posy Simmonds

Member of The Order of The British Empire Angoulême International Comics Festival Essentials Prix de la critique Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature Prix Grand Boum Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême

Movies with Posy Simmonds as Crew(4)

Writing/Screenstory2014 Gemma Bovery
Writing/Comic Book2010 Tamara Drewe
Writing/Author1996 Famous Fred
Writing/Screenplay1985 The Frog Prince

Full Name: Posy Simmonds
Citizenship: United Kingdom (UK)
Born: Thursday, 08/09 1945 (August) in Cookham (United Kingdom (UK)) (current age: 78 years + 233 days)
Zodiac sign: Leo (Chinese zodiac sign: Rooster)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: Faculty of Arts of Paris, Central School of Art and Design, Queen Anne's School, University of Paris
Employer: The Guardian
Member of: Royal Society of Literature
Influenced by/Role models: Thomas Rowlandson, George Cruikshank, William Hogarth
Other names for Posy Simmonds (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Rosemary Elizabeth Simmonds"
Posy Simmonds frequently works together with these people:
Joanna Quinn (3x, Crew)
Gemma Arterton (2x, Actress)
Anne Fontaine (2x, Crew)
Brian Gilbert (2x, Crew)
Frédéric Blum (2x, Crew)
Roger Allam (1x, Actor)
Amanda Lawrence (1x, Actress)
Vincent Lefeuvre (1x, Crew)
Marion Weise (1x, Crew)
Alex Kelly (1x, Actress)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:1019919, Added: 11/28/2018, Last updated: 03/23/2024