Kate Evans
Kate Evans is an author, cartoonist, activist and fibre artist.
She is the author of the internationally renowned historical works Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen and Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg in which she breaks new ground in formatting meticulously referenced, yet artistically coherent, comic-book representations of real life events.
Her graphic reportage from the Calais Jungle, Threads: From the Refugee Crisis, won the John Laurence Award, the Broken Frontier award for graphic non-fiction and was the first ever graphic work to be nominated for The Orwell Prize for journalism.
Other titles include Funny Weather, a graphic guide to climate change and Copse, about environmental protest, The Food of Love, on breastfeeding and Bump, about pregnancy and birth and the children’s book Don’t Call Me Princess.
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