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BBC World Service on Graphic Novelisations
Posted: September 1, 2011
Yesterday, The Strand, the arts programme on the BBC World Service with a huge global listenership, invited me in to discuss the trend for turning literary best-sellers, current and classic, into graphic novels, with a focus on Bloomsbury’s new adaptation of the best-selling novel The Kite Runner, set in Afghanistan. My five minutes open the show and which you can listen to here. I also managed to work in a positive plug for Rob Davis’s new laugh-out-loud adaptation of book one of Cervantes’ Don Quixote and a final recommendation for another original graphic novel set in Afghanistan, namely The Photographer, my book of the year in 2008, by Emmanuel Guibert and Didier Lefèvre (First Second).
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