Manuele Fior
Manuele Fior is an Italian cartoonist and illustrator. He was born in Cesena in 1975 and studied architecture at the University of Venice. He worked as an architect, illustrator and comic book artist in Berlin, Oslo and Paris. He currently lives in Venice.
Fior has received recognition for his comics since the 1990s. His most recent graphic novels 5,000 KM Per Second (2009), The Interview (2013), Blackbird Days (2016), Celestia (2021) and Hypericon (2022) have been translated in English by Fantagraphics. His illustration work has been featured in The New Yorker, Le Monde, Vanity Fair, Sole 24 Ore, Internazionale, Rolling Stone Magazine, Les Inrocks.
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Bea Lema
Beatriz Lema Rivera (1985), known as Bea Lema, is a Spanish cartoonist and illustrator, winner of the 2024 Spanish National Comic Award. Her works have been published in both Spanish and French.
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In 2017, she published her first comic in galician, O Corpo de Cristo, which was nominated and later named winner of the XII Castelao Comic Award of the Provincial Council of A Coruña, becoming the first woman to receive this award. Thanks to a scholarship she remade her work at the Maison des auteurs in Angoulême, and it was later published in France under the title Des maux à dire.
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Chloé Cruchaudet
Chloé CRUCHAUDET est née à Lyon en 1976. Après des études d'architecture puis d'arts graphiques à Lyon, elle suit l'école des Gobelins en cinéma d'animation. Les cours développent son goût du croquis sur le vif et une approche cinématographique, notamment avec le travail du story-board, dont on retrouve l'infl uence dans ses planches. Pour l'écriture, elle s'inspire d'histoires vécues, de livres historiques ou d'autobiographies. Passionnée d'études sociologiques et de témoignages historiques, elle découvre l'histoire de Minik, qui devient le héros de Groenland Manhattan. Elle reçoit pour ce premier album le prestigieux Prix René Goscinny en 2008. Pour le scénario d'Ida (trois tomes), elle s'est inspirée des premiers récits de voyages de fem
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Jordi Lafebre
Jordi Lafebre (born 1979) is a Spanish illustrator and comic book artist active in the Franco-Belgian market.
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Han Kang
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Han Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. She is the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the International Booker Prize, as well as Human Acts, The White Book, Greek Lessons, and We Do Not Part. In 2024, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” -
Inio Asano
Inio Asano (浅野いにお, Asano Inio) is a Japanese cartoonist. He is known for his character-driven stories and his detailed art-style, making him one of the most influential manga author of his generation.
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Asano was born in 1980 and produced his first amateur comics as a teenager. His professional debut happened in 2000 in the pages of the magazine Big Comic Spirits. Since then, he has collaborated with most of the major Japanese magazines of seinen manga (comics for a mature audience). Among Asano's internationally acclaimed works are: the psychological horror Nijigahara Holograph (2003-2005); the drama Solanin (2005-2006); the existentialistic slice-of-life Goodnight Punpun (2007-2013); the erotic A Girl on the Shore (2009-2013); the sci-fi De -
Frederik Peeters
Frédérik Peeters (born 13 August 1974, in Geneva) is a contemporary Swiss graphic novelist. He received his bachelor of arts degree in visual communication from the École Supérieure d’Arts Appliqués in Geneva in 1995. Peeters currently lives with his partner Cati, her son, and their daughter in Geneva.
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His autobiographical graphic novel Blue Pills received the Polish Jury Prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, where it was also nominated for Best Book. Blue Pills also won the Premios La Cárcel de Papel in Spain for Best Foreign Comic. This is his first work to be translated into English. -
Gipi
Gianni Pacinotti, better known by his pen name Gipi, is an Italian illustrator and comic book author. Gipi is regarded as one of the most influential Italian cartoonists of his generation. His graphic novels are perennial best-sellers in Italy and have received international acclaim.
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Pacinotti was born in 1963 in Pisa, Italy, where he still lives. He started his career as an illustrator for the publishing and advertising fields. Since 1992, Gipi has created illustrations and comics for several Italian magazines and newspapers, such as Cuore, Il Clandestino, Il Manifesto, La Straniero, Internationale, La Repubblica.
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Cyril Pedrosa
Cyril Pedrosa began his career in animation, working on the Disney films "Hunchback of Notre Dame" and "Hercules." He has since become a rising star in a new kind of graphic storytelling, combining the influences of animation and the literary traditions of Borges, García Márquez, and Tolkien to create a unique visual handwriting.
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Jordan Crane
Jordan Crane is a cartoonist living in Los Angeles, CA with his wife and kids. Crane first emerged in 1996 with the iconic comics anthology NON, which he edited, designed, printed, contributed to, and published.
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Tom Gauld
Tom Gauld is a cartoonist and illustrator. He draws weekly cartoons for the Guardian newspaper and New Scientist magazine. He has created eight covers for the New Yorker and a number of comic books. He lives and works in London.
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Frederik Peeters
Frédérik Peeters (born 13 August 1974, in Geneva) is a contemporary Swiss graphic novelist. He received his bachelor of arts degree in visual communication from the École Supérieure d’Arts Appliqués in Geneva in 1995. Peeters currently lives with his partner Cati, her son, and their daughter in Geneva.
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His autobiographical graphic novel Blue Pills received the Polish Jury Prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, where it was also nominated for Best Book. Blue Pills also won the Premios La Cárcel de Papel in Spain for Best Foreign Comic. This is his first work to be translated into English. -
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979).
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His style is not easy to classify; much of his writing has an air reminiscent to that of fantastical fairy tales (Our Ancestors, Cosmicomics), although sometimes his writing is more "realistic" and in the scenic mode of observation (Difficult Loves, for example). Some of his writing has been called postmodern, reflecting on literature and the act of reading, while some has been labeled magical realist, others fables, others simpl -
Arthur Schnitzler
Arthur Schnitzler was an Austrian author and dramatist.
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The son of a prominent Hungarian-Jewish laryngologist Johann Schnitzler and Luise Markbreiter (a daughter of the Viennese doctor Philipp Markbreiter), was born in Vienna in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and began studying medicine at the local university in 1879. He received his doctorate of medicine in 1885 and worked at the Vienna's General Hospital, but ultimately abandoned medicine in favour of writing.
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Boris Vian
Boris Vian was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered for novels such as L’Écume des jours and L'Arrache-cœur (translated into English as Froth on the Daydream and Heartsnatcher, respectively). He is also known for highly controversial "criminal" fiction released under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan and some of his songs (particularly the anti-war Le Déserteur). Vian was also fascinated with jazz: he served as liaison for, among others, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis in Paris, wrote for several French jazz-reviews (Le Jazz Hot, Paris Jazz) and published numerous articles dealing with jazz both in the United States and in France.
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Thomas Ott
"Thomas Ott was born in Zürich in 1966. He received training as a graphic artist at the School of Design in Zürich and has been a free-lance comics artist and illustrator since 1987. From 1998-2001 Ott attended film studies at the University of Art and Design (HGK), Zürich. He currently lives and works in Zürich and Paris. Ott is also the lead singer of The Playboys." -Fantagraphics Books
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Yasmina Reza
Yasmina Reza began work as an actress, appearing in several new plays as well as in plays by Molière and Marivaux. In 1987 she wrote Conversations after a Burial, which won the Molière Award for Best Author. Following this, she translated Kafka's Metamorphosis for Roman Polanski and was nominated for a Molière Award for Best Translation. Her second play, Winter Crossing, won the 1990 Molière for Best Fringe Production, and her next play The Unexpected Man, enjoyed successful productions in England, France, Scandinavia, Germany and New York. In 1995, Art premiered in Paris and went on to win the Molière Award for Best Author. Since then it has been produced world-wide and translated into 20 languages. The London production received the 1996-
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Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello; Agrigento (28 June 1867 – Rome 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays.
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He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art"
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Satrapi grew up in Tehran in a family which was involved with communist and socialist movements in Iran prior to the Iranian Revolution. She attended the Lycée Français there and witnessed, as a child, the growing suppression of civil liberties and the everyday-life consequences of Iranian politics, including the fall of the Shah, the early regime of Ruhollah Khomeini, and the first years of the Iran-Iraq War. She experienced an Iraqi air raid and Scud missile attacks on Tehran. Accordin -
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Pacinotti was born in 1963 in Pisa, Italy, where he still lives. He started his career as an illustrator for the publishing and advertising fields. Since 1992, Gipi has created illustrations and comics for several Italian magazines and newspapers, such as Cuore, Il Clandestino, Il Manifesto, La Straniero, Internationale, La Repubblica.
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José-Louis Bocquet
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Little José-Louis was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 28 August 1962 and became passionate about good comic strips so quickly that at the age of 13, he founded Bizu, his own fanzine. He then established various illustrated anthologies for Bédérama, offering compilations of work by authors such as Franquin, Binet and Andréas.
To satisfy his passion for reading, he got a job with the Temps Futurs bookshop at the start of the 1980s and, together with friend and companion Jean-Luc Fromental, he took part in the production of the works of L'Année de la Bande Dessinée), published by that Parisian temple of cartoons and science-fiction.
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David Muñoz
Guionista. Cine (The Devil's Backbone, No mires a los ojos), cómic (15, Sordo, Infectado, Abandonados) y TV. Profesor. Autor de Escribir con viñetas.
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Claudio Piersanti
Claudio Piersanti, nato nel 1954, ha pubblicato romanzi e racconti, tra cui: Casa di nessuno (Feltrinelli, 1981; Sestante 1993), Charles (Transeuropa, 1986; Feltrinelli, 2000), Gli sguardi cattivi della gente (Feltrinelli, 1992), L’amore degli adulti (Feltrinelli, 1989; edizione ampliata in UE, 1998), Luisa e il silenzio (Feltrinelli, 1997, premi Viareggio Rèpaci per la narrativa, Vittorini-Siracusa, “diario della settimana”), L’appeso (Feltrinelli, 2000), Comandò il padre (Pequod, 2003), Il ritorno a casa di Enrico Metz (Feltrinelli, 2006, premi Napoli, Campiello, Alassio 100 libri - Un autore per l’Europa, Frontino Montefeltro), I giorni nudi (Feltrinelli, 2010), Venezia, il filo dell’acqua (Feltrinelli, 2012) e La forza di gravità (2018)
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Antonia Kühn
Antonia Kühn, geboren 1979, studierte in Kiel Kommunikationsdesign und Illustration an der HAW Hamburg. Antonia Kühn lebt in Hamburg, wo sie als freie Illustratorin und Comicautorin arbeitet. Ihre Arbeiten wurden mehrfach am Internationalen Comix-Festival FUMETTO in Luzern und am Comicfestival Hamburg ausgestellt.
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Bernard Quiriny
Bernard Quiriny, born on June 27 1978 in Bastogne, Belgium, is a Belgian author, doctor of law, critic and professor of law at the University of Bourgogne.
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Sualzo
Antonio Vincenti, in arte Sualzo, è nato nel 1969 a Perugia. Disegnatore autodidatta inizia la sua carriera negli anni ’90 collaborando con “Il corriere della sera”. Diventa poi autore di libri per ragazzi e comincia subito a lavorare per le principali case editrici italiane. I suoi libri sono pubblicati in tre continenti. In Italia ha vinto il premio per la migliore sceneggiatura al Festi’BD di Moulins per L’improvvisatore (Rizzoli Lizard, 2009) ed è stato tra i cinque finalisti del Premio Micheluzzi 2010.
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Da qualche anno pubblica con Tunué, Bao Publishing, TopiPittori e Il Castoro.