Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Sunday 7 November
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Let us assail your ears, with an afternoon conversation between two of Australia’s leading graphic novelists and illustrators. In her 2007 adaptation of The Great Gatsby, Nicki Greenberg burst onto the scene as an imaginative force to watch.
Now, with F Scott Fitzgerald under her belt, she tackles Shakespeare. Nicki discusses her new ‘graphic staging’ of Hamlet with Shaun Tan.
Featuring
Shaun Tan
Shaun Tan grew up in Perth and works as an artist, writer and filmmaker in Melbourne. He is best known for illustrated books in a variety of styles combining surrealist imagery and social commentary, widely ...
Nicki Greenberg
Nicki Greenberg is a writer and illustrator based in Melbourne, Australia. Her first books, The Digits series, were published when she was fifteen years old. They sold more than 380,000 copies in Australia and New Zealand.
In 2008 Nicki’s innovative graphic adaptation of The Great Gatsby was selected as a White Raven at the Bologna Book Fair. She then went on to tackle Hamlet in a lavish 425-page “staging on the page”. Hamlet was joint winner of the 2011 Children’s Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year award.
Nicki’s recent picture books for young children include The Naughtiest Reindeer, Monkey Red, Monkey Blue and BOM! Went the Bear. She has also written and illustrated non-fiction for children.
Nicki is currently working on several picture books for children, including a sequel to The Naughtiest Reindeer.