Mirranda Burton Mirranda Burton i(A141647 works by)
Born: Established: 1973 Auckland, Auckland (Region), North Island,
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New Zealand,
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Pacific Region,
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Gender: Female
Arrived in Australia: ca. 1990-1994
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BiographyHistory

Mirranda Burton was born in Auckland, New Zealand and grew up in Australia. Mirranda completed an Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts at the North Adelaide School of Art in 1995. Burton then lived for a time in the UK and France prior to returning to Australia where, based in Melbourne, she undertook a Bachelor of Multimedia Design at Swinburne University.

Burton has specialised in 'animation, printmaking and writing comix'. Her stories depict 'a myriad of moments, from the mountain peaks of Morocco to lettuce invasions, to rare meetings with caterpillar psychiatrists and vacuum cleaner genies'. Her comics have appeared in Tango and Going Down Swinging since 2006. In 2010 she won the Scenario Prize at the Fumetto International Comix Festival in Lucerne, Switzerland for her comic strip P. S.

Her graphic novel Hidden (2011) was joint winner for the Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction (best graphic novel category), and her graphic novel Underground: Marsupial Outlaws and Other Rebels of Australia's War in Vietnam was joint winner for Comic Arts Awards of Australia (Bronze award) and winner of the Readings Prize (Young Adult Book prize).
 

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2017 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships Literature Board Fellowship Literature Arts Projects For Individuals and Groups $10,000.00

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Underground : Marsupial Outlaws and Other Rebels of Australia's War in Vietnam Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2021 21827030 2021 single work graphic novel

'Led by an unconscientiously objecting wombat registered for military service during Australia's war in Vietnam, Underground digs tunnels through a chapter of Australian history that many have attempted to bury.'

'Why would a wombat be registered for war?

'It's 1965, and an old Tattersalls barrel starts rolling marbles to randomly conscript young Australian men to fight in the war in Vietnam. Melbourne housewife Jean McLean is outraged, as are her artist friends Clif and Marlene Pugh, who live in the country with their wombat, Hooper.

'Determined to wreck the system, Jean forms the Save Our Sons movement's Victorian branch, and she and her supporters take to the streets to protest. Meanwhile, in the small country town of Katunga, Bill Cantwell joins the Australian Army, and in Saigon, young Mai Ho is writing letters to South Vietnamese soldiers from her school desk. And when Hooper's call-up papers arrive, he mysteriously goes underground...

'As these stories intersect in unexpected ways and destinies entwine, a new world gradually emerges - a world in which bridges of understanding make more sense than war. This stunning graphic novel, full of empathy, courage and resistance, is based on true events.' (Publication summary)

2022 shortlisted Book Links Award for Historical Fiction
2022 joint winner Comic Arts Awards of Australia Bronze Award
2022 winner Readings Prizes The Readings Young Adult Book Prize
2022 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book Eve Pownall Award
y separately published work icon Underground : Marsupial Outlaws and Other Rebels of Australia's War in Vietnam Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2021 21827030 2021 single work graphic novel

'Led by an unconscientiously objecting wombat registered for military service during Australia's war in Vietnam, Underground digs tunnels through a chapter of Australian history that many have attempted to bury.'

'Why would a wombat be registered for war?

'It's 1965, and an old Tattersalls barrel starts rolling marbles to randomly conscript young Australian men to fight in the war in Vietnam. Melbourne housewife Jean McLean is outraged, as are her artist friends Clif and Marlene Pugh, who live in the country with their wombat, Hooper.

'Determined to wreck the system, Jean forms the Save Our Sons movement's Victorian branch, and she and her supporters take to the streets to protest. Meanwhile, in the small country town of Katunga, Bill Cantwell joins the Australian Army, and in Saigon, young Mai Ho is writing letters to South Vietnamese soldiers from her school desk. And when Hooper's call-up papers arrive, he mysteriously goes underground...

'As these stories intersect in unexpected ways and destinies entwine, a new world gradually emerges - a world in which bridges of understanding make more sense than war. This stunning graphic novel, full of empathy, courage and resistance, is based on true events.' (Publication summary)

2022 shortlisted Book Links Award for Historical Fiction
2022 joint winner Comic Arts Awards of Australia Bronze Award
2022 winner Readings Prizes The Readings Young Adult Book Prize
2022 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book Eve Pownall Award
y separately published work icon Hidden Fitzroy North : Black Pepper , 2011 Z1800534 2011 selected work autobiography graphic novel 'At first glance, Mirranda Burton's art room is a hidden world full of strange eccentric characters and mysterious minds. But stay a while and in that room you'll find all the joy and sadness of life, the pain and comfort of community, and the ultimate meaning of art. This hidden world is our world; it is where we all live, together and alone. In Hidden Mirranda Burton is writing about what matters most, and she does so with such gentle humanity and wisdom these stories will stay with you long after you turn the final page and reluctantly close the art room door.' Source: Publisher's blurb.
2011 joint winner Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction Best Illustrated Book / Graphic Novel Joint winner with Tom Taylor and James Brouwer's The Deep: Here Be Dragons.
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