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Kate Evans (born 1972) is a British
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, non-fiction author and graphic novelist.


Biography

Kate Evans was born in
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, Canada, and raised in Surrey, England. She studied English literature at the
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in Brighton where she became involved in political opposition to the
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. Here she became associated with the ''
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'' DIY activist publication, editing and contributing artwork to several of its annual editions. From 1995 to 1998 Evans dedicated herself to
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, providing cartoon reportage from a
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on the route of the
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for ''
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'' newspaper. In 1998, Evans wrote, illustrated and published her account as ''Copse: the Cartoon Book of Tree Protesting''. Since 2000, Evans has produced a series of non-fiction graphic works on a variety of social and political topics. ''The Food of Love: your formula for successful breastfeeding'' has popularised
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techniques. Evans subsequently authored and illustrated the pregnancy and birth manual ''Bump: how to make, grow and birth a baby''. ''Red Rosa: a graphic biography of Rosa Luxemburg,'' an account of the life and work of revolutionary socialist
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was shortlisted for the
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2016. Evans returned to comics journalism with the book ''Threads from the Refugee Crisis,'' reportage from the Calais Jungle. ''Threads from the Refugee Crisis'' was awarded the John C. Laurence Award from the
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in 2016 and won the Broken Frontier Award for Graphic Non Fiction 2017. In 2018 it became the first graphic novel to be nominated for the
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for Books. Evans lives in
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, UK, with her spouse and two children.


Publications

* ''Copse: the Cartoon Book of Tree Protesting''. Self-published, 1998. . With photographs by Adrian Arbib,
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, and Andrew Testa. * ''Funny Weather: Everything you Didn't Want to Know About Climate Change but Probably Should Find Out''. Brighton:
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, 2006. . With an introduction by
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. **''Weird Weather''.
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, 2007. Canada and USA edition. . With an introduction by Monbiot. **''Il clima furioso. Tutto quello che dovete sapere sui cambiamenti climatici''. Italy: LIT - Libri in Tasca, 2013. . * ''The Food of Love: your formula for successful breastfeeding''. Brighton: Myriad, 2009. . * ''Bump: how to make, grow and birth a baby''. Brighton: Myriad, 2014. . * ''Red Rosa: a Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg''.
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, 2015. . * ''Threads from the Refugee Crisis''. Verso, 2017. . * ''Don't Call Me Princess!''.
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, 2018. .


References


External links

*
An excerpt from ''Threads''
at ''The Guardian''
"Kate Evans on Doomed Revolutionary and Political Dynamo 'Red' Rosa"
at ''Vice'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Evans, Kate British women cartoonists Artists from Montreal Writers from Montreal British graphic novelists 20th-century British women artists 20th-century British women writers Alumni of the University of Sussex 1972 births Living people