Hannah Berry

Hannah Berry is an award-winning graphic novelist, comics creator, scriptwriter, illustrator and campaigner. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was appointed UK Comics Laureate 2019-21. Editions of her books have been published in the USA, France, Holland, Serbia and Italy, while her artwork has been exhibited in solo and collective exhibitions worldwide. Berry’s first graphic novel BRITTEN & BRÜLIGHTLY was published by Jonathan Cape in 2008, with the French edition chosen for the OFFICIAL SELECTION of the 2010 Angoulême International Comics Festival. Her second graphic novel ADAMTINE was published in 2012 and her third, LIVESTOCK, in 2017, both by Jonathan Cape to some critical acclaim. LIVESTOCK won Berry a BEST WRITER AWARD at the 2017 Broken Frontier Awards and was nominated in the BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL category. She has contributed comics to anthologies and publications from 2000AD to the New England Journal of Medicine, was a cartoonist for New Statesman and Prospect Magazine, and wrote several episodes of the multi-award-winning podcast THE REZ.