Great Day For Losers: Wimpy Kid Author Gets French Medal
December 9, 2019
5:00 pm
The Wimpy Kid has finally done good — and his creator Jeff Kinney has even got a medal from France to prove it.
The American creator of the bestseller “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” books was made an officer of France’s Order of Arts and Letters on Monday, an honour also conferred on Nobel laureates T. S. Eliot and Seamus Heaney as well as music megastars such as Bono and David Bowie.
As the medal was pinned to his chest, Kinney, 48, said he never expected his stories to become such a cult children’s hit, selling more than 200 …
