Over the last decade, acclaimed author-illustrator Shaun Tan has produced genre-breaking and multiple prize-winning picture books. The Rabbits, his celebrated collaboration with John Marsden, is a powerful fable about the fate of Aborigine under colonisation and is studied throughout Australasian schools. His most recent solo publications, The Lost Thing and The Red Tree, have achieved cult status amongst teenagers and adults internationally, confirming the picture book’s new status as a sophisticated form for all ages. A fine critical mind as well as a rare artistic sensibility, Shaun Tan is one of the most important voices in contemporary literature’s most boundary-breaking form.

 

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