Laurence Anholt
Nestlé Smarties Gold Award 1999 Historical Association Young Quills Award 2017 • Website — http: www.anholt.co.uk Laurence Anholt (born 4 August 1959) is an English author and illustrator of more than 200 books in over 30 languages, covering a wide age range, from picture books to adult fiction. Anholt's picture books are notable for their upbeat and humorous approach to important issues for young children, often based on his own family experience and typified by a quirky, hand drawn pen and watercolour style. In recent years, Anholt has turned to writing for an older age range, including The Hypnotist a novel for a Young Adult readership published by Penguin Random House, about race and civil rights set in the Deep South of America in the early 1960s.
Laurence Anholt
Comedythings · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Name
- Laurence Anholt
- Born
- 4 August 1959
- Birthplace
- Barnet, London
- Occupation
- Writer and Illustrator
- Education
- Box Hill School, Falmouth School of Art (BA Hons Fine Art) Royal Academy of Art (MA Fine Art)
- Spouse
- Catherine Anholt
- Awards
- Nestlé Smarties Gold Award 2001
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Fields
- children's literature · young adult literature · detective novel · civil and political rights
- Honours
- Nestlé Children's Book Prize
- Languages
- English
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Nestlé Smarties Gold Award 1999 Historical Association Young Quills Award 2017 • Website — http: www.anholt.co.uk Laurence Anholt (born 4 August 1959) is an English author and illustrator of more than 200 books in over 30 languages, covering a wide age range, from picture books to adult fiction. Anholt's picture books are notable for their upbeat and humorous approach to important issues for young children, often based on his own family experience and typified by a quirky, hand drawn pen and watercolour style. In recent years, Anholt has turned to writing for an older age range, including The Hypnotist a novel for a Young Adult readership published by Penguin Random House, about race and civil rights set in the Deep South of America in the early 1960s.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Laurence Anholt. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Educated At · outgoing
Falmouth University
Organisation
Awarded · outgoing
Nestlé Children's Book Prize
Term
Educated At · outgoing
Royal Academy of Arts
Organisation
This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of Art . See the Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy
Born In · outgoing
United Kingdom
Place
Citizen Of · outgoing
United Kingdom
Place
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q6500450 · wikipedia · Laurence Anholt
In this article
Biography
Biography
The novel was officially endorsed by Amnesty International and in 2017 won the Historical Association's Young Quills Award. In July 2019, Anholt's first title in the Mindful Detective series featuring Buddhist cop, Vincent Caine, Art of Death was published by Constable / Little, Brown. Anholt lives in Devon, Southwest England.
Laurence Anholt studied at Royal Academy of Arts and Falmouth University. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is children's literature, young adult literature and detective novel. Places of work recorded in the authority are Devon. Distinctions recorded are Nestlé Children's Book Prize.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Laurence Anholt • Birth Name — Laurence Anholt • Born — 4 August 1959 • Birthplace — Barnet, London • Occupation — Writer and Illustrator • Education — Box Hill School, Falmouth School of Art (BA Hons Fine Art) Royal Academy of Art (MA Fine Art) • Genre — Children's Fiction Young Adult Fiction Crime Fiction • Notable Works — Chimp and Zee Seriously Silly Stories series Anholt's Artists series The Hypnotist The Mindful Detective Series • Spouse — Catherine Anholt • Children — 3 • Awards — Nestlé Smarties Gold Award 2001
Career and activity
Career and activity
Laurence Anholt worked in children's literature, young adult literature, detective novel, civil and political rights and civil rights. He worked at Devon.
Identity
Identity
Laurence Anholt is recorded as having received Nestlé Children's Book Prize.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 1 entries
1959
Laurence Anholt born at United Kingdom.
Awards and recognition
International awards include the Nestlé Smarties Gold Award 2001 for 'Chimp and Zee', written by Anholt, illustrated by Catherine Anholt, and the Nestlé Smarties Gold Award 1999 for 'Snow White and the Seven Aliens', one of the 'Seriously Silly Stories' written by Anholt, Illustrated by Arthur Robins. Anholt has been amongst the 150 Most Borrowed Author's from UK Libraries and the PLR (Public Lending Right) listed Laurence Anholt at position 146 in 2007/8. Anholt was included in the Independent on Sunday's Top 10 Children's Authors in the UK. 'The Hypnotist' was the overall winner of the Historical Winner Young Quills Award 2017, nominated for the Carnegie Medal and officially endorsed by Amnesty International in 2017.
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
People, houses and institutions
Knowledge graph
People, houses and institutions
Teachers, collaborators, publishers and institutions recorded against this person, each on a stated basis.
Studied at
1- Royal Academy of ArtsOrganisation
Established from a fact already recorded on a verified source.
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 17 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Illustration
5,224 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Lauren BeardIllustrator
- Lauren CastilloIllustrator
- Lauren ChildIllustrator
- Lauren MontgomeryIllustrator
- Laurie TriefeldtIllustrator
- Laverne Nelson BlackIllustrator
- Lavinia Spencer, Countess SpencerIllustrator
- Lawrence Alma-TademaIllustrator
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Laurence Anholt?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.