Danica Novgorodoff
Danica Novgorodoff is a graphic novelist, painter, illustrator, graphic designer, and writer from Brooklyn, New York and Louisville, Kentucky. She was awarded a 2015 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in Literature, was named Sarabande Books’ 2016 writer in residence, and received a 2020 Café Royal Cultural Foundation grant in literature. Her art and writing have been published in MoMA Magazine, Best American Comics, The Believer, Artforum, Esquire, VQR, Slate, Orion, Seneca Review, Ecotone Journal, The Arkansas International, and others.
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- Born
- 8 September 1980
- Birthplace
- Chicago
- Nationality
- American
- Awards
- Kate Greenaway Medal
- Occupation
- novelist · comics artist · comics creator · designer · illustrator · painter · photographer · comics writer
- Fields
- comic · graphic design · illustration · photography
- Education
- Yale University
- Languages
- English
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Danica Novgorodoff is a graphic novelist, painter, illustrator, graphic designer, and writer from Brooklyn, New York and Louisville, Kentucky. She was awarded a 2015 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in Literature, was named Sarabande Books’ 2016 writer in residence, and received a 2020 Café Royal Cultural Foundation grant in literature. Her art and writing have been published in MoMA Magazine, Best American Comics, The Believer, Artforum, Esquire, VQR, Slate, Orion, Seneca Review, Ecotone Journal, The Arkansas International, and others.
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• Born — 8 September 1980 • Birthplace — Chicago • Nationality — American • Cartoonist — y • Write — y • Pencil — y • Ink — y • Letter — y • Color — y • Edit — y • Notable Works — A Long Way Down, A Late Freeze, Slow Storm, Refresh, Refresh, The Undertaking of Lily Chen • Awards — Kate Greenaway Medal • Website — http: www.danicanovgorodoff.com
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Novgorodoff's first graphic novel, A Late Freeze, was self-published in 2006 and won the Isotope Award for excellence in mini-comics, and her graphic novel, Refresh, Refresh, was included in Best American Comics in 2011. Her book, The Undertaking of Lily Chen, was published in March 2014. In 2020, Novgorodoff's graphic novel adaptation of Long Way Down, by Jason Reynolds, was published by Simon and Schuster and won the 2022 Kate Greenaway Medal. Novgorodoff is a graduate of Yale University with a bachelor's degree in art and, from 1999 to 2003, worked as an assistant to photographer Sally Mann.
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Danica Novgorodoff is recorded as novelist, comics artist, comics creator, designer and illustrator.
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1980
Danica Novgorodoff born at Chicago.
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