Hamid and Shakespeare is a debut graphic novel by a former Calais jungle refugee imagining a friendship between a refugee arriving in London today and the nation¿s most famous playwright.

Majid Adin is an Iranian artist and animator, who arrived in the UK in a refrigerated truck in 2016. Ten years earlier, an occasional blog he wrote upset the regime in Iran, and he was forced into political exile from Tehran following a brief imprisonment. It was only ten years later that he took up the pen again, as a refugee in the Calais jungle. He lives in West Hampstead.