Daniel Postgate
{{Short description|English script writer, author and illustrator}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Daniel Postgate
| image =
| birth_name = Daniel Raymond Postgate
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1964|02|05}}
| birth_place = Whitstable, Kent, England
| occupation = writer, illustrator,
| partner = Rochelle Bloom
| children = 2
| parents = Oliver Postgate
Prudence Myers
| relatives = Raymond Postgate
(grandfather)
George Lansbury
(great grandfather)
Angela Lansbury
(cousin)
| family = Postgate family
}}
Daniel Raymond Postgate (born 5 February 1964) is an English script writer, author, and illustrator.{{Cite web|url=http://www.danpostgate.com/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070705161312/http://www.danpostgate.com/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=5 July 2007|title=Welcome to the site of Daniel Postgate|website=danpostgate.com|access-date=25 June 2018}} Some of his books include Smelly Bill, Engelbert Sneem and His Dream Vacuum Machine, and Big Mum Plum. In 2014, he collaborated with Oliver Postgate’s business partner and other founder of Smallfilms, Peter Firmin on the production of a new series of The Clangers, with Daniel Postgate writing many of the episodes and voicing the Iron Chicken, The Soup Dragon, and her son, Baby Soup Dragon. He won a Bafta for his episode 'I am the Eggbot'.{{Citation |last=BAFTA |title=Clangers wins Pre-School Animation {{!}} BAFTA Children's Awards 2015 |date=23 November 2015 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHc1FRHkc84 |access-date=25 June 2018}}
After the death of his father in 2008, Postgate inherited Smallfilms, the company set up by Postgate and Firmin. Smallfilms is a company that has made Pingwings, Pogles' Wood, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, Clangers and Bagpuss, and was shown on the BBC between 1950s and 1980s, and on ITV from 1959 to the present day.
Early life
Postgate was born in Whitstable Hospital on 5 February 1964, the youngest son of Oliver Postgate and Prudence Myers, nee Briton. Postgate grew up in Blean, a village just outside Whitstable, and lived in a large house which was once a pub.{{Cite web|url=http://www.walker.co.uk/contributors/Daniel-Postgate-4216.aspx|title=Walker Books – Daniel Postgate|website=walker.co.uk|access-date=25 June 2018}} He attended the Canterbury Technical College.{{Cite web|url=https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/authors/daniel-postgate/|title=Daniel Postgate Books, Author Biography, and Reading Level {{!}} Scholastic|website=www.scholastic.com|access-date=25 June 2018}}
Career
After moving to London, Postgate regularly contributed his Cartoons to The Sunday Times newspaper [https://www.walker.co.uk/contributors/Daniel-Postgate-4216.aspx]. In 1993, he wrote and illustrated his first picture book, '
Personal life
Postgate has worked as a chef, a painter of horses and sea scenes on old wooden boxes, a freelance cartoonist, and a picture book illustrator. Postgate has two children, a son and a daughter.
References
External links
- [https://www.radiotimes.com › News]
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Category:People from Whitstable
Category:English children's writers