Posy Simmonds is an author, illustrator and newspaper cartoonist, who has drawn mainly for The Guardian. Two graphic novels, Gemma Bovery and Tamara Drewe, were originally serialised in the paper and later, both were made into feature films. A third novel, Cassandra Darke, was published in 2018. Exhibitions of her work include retrospectives at The House of Illustration, London, in 2019 and at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, in 2023.  She won the Grand Prix Töpffer in 2022 and the Grand Prix d’Angoulême in 2024.