An award

Raymond Briggs, author of Fungus the

Bogeyman and The Snowman, has been awarded a lifetime achievement award by children’s books charity BookTrust, despite the famously irascible artist and writer protesting last December that he regarded such honours as a “funny title, because come on, my lifetime hasn’t ended yet”. to award récompenser / lifetime achievement oeuvre de toute une vie / charity association caritative / despite malgré le fait que, en dépit du fait que / famously ici, réputé / to regard considérer / such ici, de tels / come on allez.