Isabel Greenberg

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Isabel Poppy Greenberg (born 1988) is a British graphic novelist and illustrator.

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Her first book, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth , was published in 2013 by Jonathan Cape in London, Little Brown in the US, and Random House in Canada. [1] Greenberg has also made a short film in 2018 called Janet, Who Fell From The Sea.

Early life

Born in Camden in 1988, [2] Greenberg studied illustration at the Brighton School of Art and graduated in 2011. [3]

In 2008, while still a student, Greenberg entered the Observer/Cape/Comica Graphic Short Story Prize, and was a runner-up. [4] She entered the competition again in 2011 and won it with "Love in a Very Cold Climate", a love story about a Nord, a North Pole-dweller, and Suit, a South Pole-dweller, who can never touch each other. [3]

Career

In 2013, Greenberg was one of twenty leading graphic designers and illustrators to feature in the Memory Palace exhibition at the V & A, sponsored by Sky Arts. [5] An original piece of fiction by Hari Kunzru was transformed into a "walk-in graphic novel". [6]

In 2014, she was a select at Pick Me Up at Somerset House. [7]

Greenberg's work has been published in The Guardian , The Observer , and The New York Times , and by Nobrow Press. [8] She has also worked with Chatham Dockyard, Tyntesfield House and the English Folk Dance and Song Society. [8]

Graphic novels

Greenberg's first graphic novel, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth (2013), is a series of interlinking stories set in Early Earth, where her prize-winning short story was also set. Rachel Cooke, reviewing her book in The Guardian , said "her wonderful book already feels like a classic" and compared her to Tove Jansson. [9] It has been translated into German, Spanish, French [10] and Polish.

In 2016, Greenberg released her second graphic novel, The One Hundred Nights of Hero. [11] A movie adaptation was announced in 2024, directed by Julia Jackman and starring Emma Corrin, Maika Monroe and Nicholas Galitzine. [12]

In Glass Town (2020), parts of the Brontë juvenilia are retold and intersected with the lives of four Brontë children — Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne, as they explore the paracosm they created. [13] [14] James Smart, for The Guardian, wrote: "Greenberg blurs fiction and memoir: characters walk between worlds and woo their creators. [...] This is a tale, bookended by funerals, about the collision between dreamlike places of possibility and constrained 19th-century lives". [15]

Children's books

Greenberg has also illustrated several children's books. The book A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars with Seth Fishman won the 2018 Mathical Book Prize. [16]

Also in 2018, she illustrated Athena: the story of a goddess, by her younger sister Imogen Greenberg. [17]

References

  1. ↑ "The Encyclopedia of Early Earth". Isabel Greenberg.
  2. ↑ "Isabel Poppy Greenberg" in England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007, Camden volume 14 (May 1988), p. 185
  3. 1 2 Cooke, Rachel (6 November 2011). "The Observer/Cape Graphic Short Story Prize 2011". The Guardian.
  4. ↑ "2008 Graphic Short Story Prize". www.comicafestival.com. 4 December 2008. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016.
  5. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 21 May 2016. Retrieved 13 February 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ↑ Wainwright, Oliver (18 June 2013). "Hari Kunzru's Memory Palace creates a 'walk-in' graphic novel at the V&A". The Guardian.
  7. ↑ "What's on". 28 August 2016.
  8. 1 2 "Graphic Novels". Isabel Greenberg.
  9. ↑ Cooke, Rachel (14 October 2013). "The Encyclopedia of Early Earth by Isabel Greenberg – review". The Guardian.
  10. ↑ "About Isabel Greenberg - isabelnecessary". www.isabelnecessary.com. Archived from the original on 10 May 2018. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
  11. ↑ Serrao, Nivea (5 December 2016). "'The One Hundred Nights of Hero': EW Review". EW.com. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  12. ↑ Grobar, Matt (9 September 2024). "Nicholas Galitzine Boards '100 Nights Of Hero,' Graphic Novel Adaptation From Director Julia Jackman". Deadline. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  13. ↑ Puc, Samantha (29 February 2020). "10 New Graphic Novels to Read for Women's History Month". CBR . Retrieved 27 October 2020.
  14. ↑ "Glass Town: The Imaginary World of the Brontës". Publishers Weekly . Retrieved 27 October 2020.
  15. ↑ Smart, James (22 February 2020). "Glass Town by Isabel Greenberg review – inside the Brontës' dreamworld". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 27 October 2020.
  16. ↑ "A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars". Mathical Book Prize. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  17. ↑ Athena: the story of a goddess: Greenberg, Imogen, author; Greenberg, Isabel, illustrator; London: Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2018, 62 pages, ISBN   9781408892497
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