page_title: Hergé
section_title: Awards and recognition
hierarchical_section_title: Hergé / Legacy / Awards and recognition
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Thalys-trein met Hergé-livrij
context_page_description: Georges Prosper Remi, known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian cartoonist. He is best known for creating The Adventures of Tintin, the series of comic albums which are considered one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century. He was also responsible for two other well-known series, Quick & Flupke and The Adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko. His works were executed in his distinct ligne claire drawing style.
  Born to a lower-middle-class family in Etterbeek, Brussels, Hergé began his career by contributing illustrations to Scouting magazines, developing his first comic series, The Adventures of Totor, for Le Boy-Scout Belge in 1926. Working for the conservative Catholic newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle, he created The Adventures of Tintin in 1929 on the advice of its editor Norbert Wallez. Revolving around the actions of boy reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy, the series' early installments — Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, Tintin in the Congo, and Tintin in America — were designed as conservative propaganda for children.
context_section_description: 1971: Adamson Awards, Sweden
  1972: Yellow Kid lifetime award ("una vita per il cartooning") at the Festival of Lucca
  1973: Grand Prix Saint Michel of the city of Brussels
  1999: Included in the Harvey Award Jack Kirby Hall of Fame
  2003: Included in the Eisner Award Hall of Fame as the Judge's choice
  2006: The Dalai Lama bestowed the International Campaign for Tibet's Light of Truth Award upon the character of Tintin.
  2007: Selected as the main motif for a Belgian commemorative coin with a face value of €20 in honour of his 100th birthday.
  According to the UNESCO's Index Translationum, Hergé is the ninth-most-often-translated French-language author, the second-most-often-translated Belgian author after Georges Simenon, and the second-most-often-translated French-language comics author behind René Goscinny. He also had an asteroid, 1652 Hergé, within the main belt, named after him in 1953.
caption: A Thalys train decorated with a Tintin vignette and Hergé's signature
exif: {}