Shaun tan

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The Oscar-winning writer and artist talks to Lorien Kite about fairytales, nightmares and why we’re all migrants now

Shaun Tan’s ground breaking graphic novel The Arrival tells the story an immigrant’s experience with no words. In this gallery Shaun explains why themes of diversity infuse everything he writes and paints and why he’s “still the child on the loungeroom floor with a pencil, just trying to figure it all out”

Shaun Tan’s ground breaking graphic novel The Arrival tells the story an immigrant’s experience with no words. In this gallery Shaun explains why themes of diversity infuse everything he writes and paints and why he’s “still the child on the loungeroom floor with a pencil, just trying to figure it all out”

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Posts about Shaun Tan written by Fred Lynch

… para buscarse la vida en tierras extranjeras. Como un prestidigitador dibuja unas viñetas cargadas de un lirismo vintage que, por arte de magia y sin palabras, logran hacernos compartir la tragedia de aquellos que abandonan hogares asediados por la ausencia de oportunidades, la guerra o la represión, la extrañeza de la llegada a un …

Shaun Tan’s ground breaking graphic novel The Arrival tells the story an immigrant’s experience with no words. In this gallery Shaun explains why themes of diversity infuse everything he writes and paints and why he’s “still the child on the loungeroom floor with a pencil, just trying to figure it all out”