Tamara Drewe
| Tamara Drewe | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Posy Simmonds |
| Website | http://books.guardian.co.uk/tamaradrewe |
| Launch date | 24 September 2005 |
| End date | 20 October 2007 |
| Publisher(s) | The Guardian |
Tamara Drewe is a weekly comic strip serial by Posy Simmonds published in The Guardian's Review section. The strip is based upon a modern reworking of Thomas Hardy's nineteenth century novel Far from the Madding Crowd.
The story was adapted into a feature film starring Gemma Arterton.
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[edit] Publication history
The strip made its first appearance in The Guardian on 17 September 2005, in the first Berliner-sized Saturday edition.
[edit] Collected editions
The complete work was published as a single volume with hardcover (Jonathan Cape, November 2007, ISBN 022407816X) and softcover editions (Mariner Books, October 2008, ISBN 0547154127; Jonathan Cape, September 2009, ISBN 0224078178). It has also been translated into French (Editions Denoël, October 2008, ISBN 2207260437), German (Reprodukt, January 2010, ISBN 9783941099319) and Swedish (Wibom books, October 2011, ISBN 9789197821346).
[edit] Awards
Tamara Drewe won the 2009 Prix de la critique.[1]
[edit] Film adaptation
The comic has been adapted into a feature film starring Gemma Arterton and Dominic Cooper and directed by Stephen Frears. Momentum Pictures released the film in the UK on 10 September 2010.[2] The film premièred at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2010[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Grands Prix de la Critique > 2000-2009, ACBD
- ^ Bamigboye, Baz (July 17, 2009). "Gemma Arterton is wanted by The Queen director to get crowd Madding in sexy new role". Daily Mail (Associated Newspapers). http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1200208/BAZ-BAMIGBOYE-Gemma-Arterton-wanted-The-Queen-director-crowd-Madding-sexy-new-role.html.
- ^ Higgins, Charlotte (May 17, 2010). "Tamara Drewe comic strip charms Cannes in film form". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/may/17/cannes-tamara-drewe-film.
[edit] External links
- Tamara Drewe at The Guardian website
