Yarō Abe
Yaro Abe (安倍 夜郎)
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Wang Ning
Wang Ning, responsable de la maison d’édition Beijing Total Vision a œuvré ces dernières années au rapprochement de la BD européenne en Chine. Il publie aux éditions Mosquito "Quand l'enfant disparaît" en 2021.
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Andrea Fontana
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Andrea Fontana è autore, critico e sceneggiatore. Nato a Genova, le storie sono da sempre la sua pas- sione. Esperto di cinema e fumetto, collabora con «Fumettologica» e «Segnocinema». Clara e le ombre è il suo primo graphic novel. -
Cees Nooteboom
Cees Nooteboom (born Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria Nooteboom, 31 July 1933, in the Hague) is a Dutch author. He has won the Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren, the P.C. Hooft Award, the Pegasus Prize, the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs for Rituelen, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature and the Constantijn Huygens Prize, and has frequently been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature.
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His works include Rituelen (Rituals, 1980); Een lied van schijn en wezen (A Song of Truth and Semblance, 1981); Berlijnse notities (Berlin Notes, 1990); Het volgende verhaal (The Following Story, 1991); Allerzielen (All Souls' Day, 1998) and Paradijs verloren (Paradise Lost, 2004). (Het volgende verhaal won him the Aristeion Prize in 1993 -
Anna Claybourne
Freelance children’s writer and editor, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Anna Claybourne writes children's information books on all kinds of topics: science experiments, ancient history, the human body, things to make, the environment, robots, evolution, art, fashion, Shakespeare and many more - as well as retellings of myths, legends and Shakespeare plays, and rhyming stories.
She studied English literature at university, but has always been interested in science, technology and art and design as well. She loves making and crafting, especially sewing, and her house is full of fabrics, craft materials, tools and books. Other interests and passions include camping, cats, outdoor swimming, news and politics, and music - she plays the trombone and -
Gengoroh Tagame
Gengoroh Tagame is a Japanese manga artist who specializes in gay BDSM erotic manga, many of which depict graphic violence. The men he depicts are hypermasculine, and tend to be on the bearish side.
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Born into a family descended from samurai, Tagame began his career as a manga artist in 1982, while he was studying graphic design at Tama Art University (多摩美術大学). His works have been published in several Japanese gay magazines, including Sabu, G-men and SM-Z. Since 1986, he has used the pen-name Gengoroh Tagame, and since 1994 Tagame has lived off the profits of his art and writings. In recent years, Tagame has edited a two volume artbook series about the history of gay erotic art in Japan from the 1950s to the present, 日本のゲイ・エロティック・アート (Nihon n -
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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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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.
Her first work, renamed to Spanish as El Cuerpo de Cristo and published this time by the Astiberri publishing house, was awarded the 2024 National Comic Award, which was -
Lucie Bryon
Lucie Bryon is an cartoonist and illustrator. She studied graphic design in Orléans, France and comics at the ESA St Luc Brussels, Belgium.
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She now lives in France and works for children’s publishing, video game companies and various publications as an illustrator and comic artist.
Her work has been published by ShortBox, Milan, BDkids, Kaboom Studios, Cicada Magazine, and France Inter.
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Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim was born in the town of Goheung in Jeolla Province, a town famous for its beautiful mountains and sea. Her graphic novels include The Song of My Father, Jiseul, and Kogaeyi, which have been translated and published in France. She also wrote and illustrated The Baby Hanyeo Okrang Goes to Dokdo, A Day with My Grandpa, and My Mother Kang Geumsun. She received the Best Creative Manhwa Award for her short manhwa “Sister Mija,” about a comfort woman. She has had exhibitions of her works in Korea and Europe since 2012, and her graphic novels and manhwa deal mostly with people who are outcasts or marginalized.
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Alice Basso
Alice Basso è nata nel 1979 a Milano e ora vive in un ridente borgo medievale fuori Torino.
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Lavora in una casa editrice.
Nel tempo libero finge di avere ancora vent'anni e canta in una band di rock acustico per cui scrive anche i testi delle canzoni. Suona il sassofono, ama disegnare, cucina male, guida ancora peggio e di sport nemmeno a parlarne. -
Paolo Nori
Dopo il diploma in ragioneria ha lavorato in Algeria, Iraq e Francia. Tornato in Italia ha conseguito la laurea in Lingua e Letteratura Russa presso l'Università di Parma, con una tesi sulla poesia di Velimir Chlebnikov. Ha quindi esercitato per un certo tempo l'attività di traduttore di manuali tecnici dal russo part time. Alla redazione de Il semplice conosce Ermanno Cavazzoni, Gianni Celati, Ugo Cornia, Daniele Benati, con i quali collabora per anni, cominciando a pubblicare i suoi scritti fortemente influenzati dalle avanguardie russe ed emiliane. È fondatore e redattore della rivista L'Accalappiacani, edita da DeriveApprodi. Collabora con alcuni quotidiani tra cui Il Manifesto, Libero, Il Foglio e Il Fatto Quotidiano.
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Taiyo Matsumoto
See also: 松本大洋 and 松本 大洋
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Although Taiyo Matsumoto desired a career as a professional soccerplayer at first, he eventually chose an artistic profession. He gained his first success through the Comic Open contest, held by the magazine Comic Morning, which allowed him to make his professional debut. He started out with 'Straight', a comic about basketball players. Sports remain his main influence in his next comic, 'Zéro', a story about a boxer.
In 1993 Matsumoto started the 'Tekkonkinkurito' trilogy in Big Spirits magazine, which was even adapted to a theatre play. He continued his comics exploits with several short stories for the Comic Aré magazine, which are collected in the book 'Nihon no Kyodai'. Again for Big Spirits, Taiyo Matsumoto st -
Jirō Taniguchi
Name (in native language): 谷口 ジロー
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Zodiac: Leo
He began to work as assistant of the late mangaka Kyota Ishikawa.
He made his manga debut in 1970 with Kareta Heya (A Desiccated Summer), published in the magazine Young Comic.
From 1976 to 1979, he created several hard-boiled comics with the scenarist Natsuo Sekigawa, such as City Without Defense, The Wind of the West is White and Lindo 3.
From 1984 to 1991, Tanigushi and Natsuo Sekigawa produced the trilogy Bocchan No Jidai.
In the 1990s, he came up with several albums, among which Aruku Hito (歩くひと), Chichi no koyomi (The Almanac of My Father), and Keyaki no ki.
In 2001, he created the Icare (Icaro) series on texts by Mœbius.
Jirô Taniguchi gained several prizes for his work. Among others, the Osamu -
Richard Lloyd Parry
Richard Lloyd Parry was born in north-west England, and has lived since 1995 in Tokyo, where he is the Asia Editor of The Times newspaper of London. He has reported from twenty-eight countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq and North Korea. In 2005, he was named the UK's foreign correspondent of the year. He has also written for Granta, the New York Times and the London Review of Books.
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Załmen Gradowski
Załmen Gradowski (1910 - 1944) – polski więzień obozu Auschwitz-Birkenau pochodzenia żydowskiego, jeden z organizatorów buntu Sonderkommando w Krematorium IV z 1944 roku. Autor odnalezionych i wydanych po wojnie relacji.
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Daniel Cuello
Daniel Cuello è argentino di nascita, italiano di adozione ma più che altro fumettista. Nel suo sangue ci sono circa sette nazionalità diverse. Autodidatta, da anni pubblica graphic novel, racconti brevi, illustrazioni e tante, tantissime vignette.
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André Kertész
André Kertész (French: [kɛʁtɛs]; 2 July 1894 – 28 September 1985), born Kertész Andor, was a Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition and the photo essay. In the early years of his career, his then-unorthodox camera angles and style prevented his work from gaining wider recognition. Kertész never felt that he had gained the worldwide recognition he deserved. Today he is considered one of the seminal figures of photojournalism.[
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Jake Adelstein
Jake Adelstein has been an investigative journalist in Japan since 1993 and low-ranking Zen Buddhist priest since 2017--and is unlikely to ever achieve satori. That's okay. He's considered one of the foremost experts on organized crime in Japan and works as a writer and consultant in Japan, the United States and France. He is the author of Tokyo Vice: A Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan (Vintage) and has written two other books published by Marchialy in France.
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𝗝’𝗔𝗜 𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗨 𝗠𝗢𝗡 𝗔̂𝗠𝗘 𝗘𝗡 𝗕𝗜𝗧𝗖𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗦 (I Sold My Soul For Bitcoins) 2019 -
Zuo Ma
Zuo Ma was born in Zhijiang City in 1983. After graduating from the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology in 2005, he began his career as a cartoonist and freelance illustrator. His comics typically encompass horror, fantasy, and autobiography. Zuo Ma is considered one of the leaders in the nascent Chinese alternative comics scene.
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Mateusz Urbanowicz
I do a lot of different art, but mostly paintings, illustrations, animations, comics, videos, and anything else that's shiny! I'm originally from Poland but now I freelance out of my studio in Kanagawa, Japan along with my wife Kana. If you are curious how I make my art have a look at my website or YouTube channel!
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Julia Wertz
Julia Wertz is a professional cartoonist, amateur historian, and part-time urban explorer. She made the comic books The Fart Party vol 1 and vol 2 (collected in Museum of Mistakes) and the graphic novels Drinking at the Movies, The Infinite Wait, Tenements, Towers, & Trash, (for which she won the 2018 Brendan Gill Prize), and Impossible People. She does regular short story comics for the New Yorker. Her work has appeared regularly in the New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, the Believer, the Best American Comics, and other publications. Her photography of abandoned places has appeared in a handful of newspapers. She is a repeated MacDowell fellow but was rejected from Yaddo. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, she spent a decade in Ne
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Laura Imai Messina
Laura Imai Messina was born in Rome and graduated in Literature from La Sapienza University. She moved to Tokyo at the age of twenty-three to perfect the language and has been permanently living in Japan ever since. She obtained a first level doctorate in Comparative Cultures at the International Christian University with a thesis on the Japanese writer Ogawa Yōko and at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies a PhD with a comparative thesis on the subject of materiality in Japanese and European literature.
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Iperborea
Emilia Lodigiani fonda Iperborea nel 1987 con il preciso obiettivo di far conoscere la letteratura dell'area nord-europea in Italia. Una produzione di altissima qualità, che spazia da classici e premi Nobel, inediti o riproposti in nuove traduzioni; a voci di punta della narrativa contemporanea. Oltre ai paesi scandinavi (Svezia, Danimarca, Norvegia e Finlandia), Iperborea pubblica la narrativa dell'area nederlandese, estone, islandese (incluse le antiche saghe medioevali) e dal 1998 una collana di saggi letterari per offrire al lettore spunti di approfondimento. Nel 2010 lancia una nuova collana di gialli, "Ombre", alla base della quale rimangono le scelte che caratterizzano da sempre l'editore: l'attenzione alla scrittura, ai temi etici,
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Noriko Morishita
Noriko Morishita (森下典子さん, Yokohama, 1956) is a Japanese author and reporter.
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Noriko Morishita was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture in 1956. She graduated from the Department of Japanese Literature at the Faculty of Humanities, Japan Women's University. While still an undergraduate, she began working as a reporter, gathering stories for Shukan Asahi magazine's popular Dekigotology column. Since publishing her experiences researching the column in the 1987 book Nori-yakko Dosue, she has enjoyed a flourishing career as an essayist and reporter. -
Emma Pedreira
Emma Pedreira (A Coruña, 1978). Filóloga, poeta e narradora. Membro da Plataforma de Crítica Feminista A Sega. Forma parte da denominada Xeración Poética dos 90.
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En xuño de 2018 gañou o Premio Xerais de novela, por Besta do seu sangue, obra da que o xurado asegurou que supón unha proposta "de carácter transgresor caracterizada pola súa multiplicidade de voces, polo seu esencialismo narrativo e por exhibir diversos rexistros".
En 2019 gañou o premio Jules Verne de Literatura Infantil con Os corpos invisibles no que o xurado salientou "a orixinalidade da perspectiva adoptada para o desenvolvemento da trama; a innovación no seu achegamento a un clásico universal e ás autoras inglesas da época vitoriana; o firme feminismo da obra; o retrato socia -
Eleonora C. Caruso
Eleonora C. Caruso è nata nel 1986 e si è annoiata finché non è andato in onda Sailor Moon. Nel 2001 ha cominciato a scrivere in rete fanfiction sui suoi anime preferiti, conquistando in breve tempo migliaia di lettori. Ha fatto l’operaia, la commessa, l’impiegata, la centralinista di call centre. Vive a Milano con il suo compagno e la sua collezione di manga.
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Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson's writing has appeared in Guernica, The Guardian, and elsewhere. Her short story “Control Negro” was anthologized in Best American Short Stories, guest edited by Roxane Gay, and read live by LeVar Burton as part of PRI’s Selected Shorts series. Johnson has been a fellow at Hedgebrook, Tin House Summer Workshops, and VCCA. A veteran public school art teacher, Johnson lives and writes in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Leo Ortolani
Leonardo Ortolani, better known as Leo, is an Italian comics author, creator of the popular comic strip series Rat-Man and Venerdì 12.
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From an early age, Ortolani showed a great passion for the world of comic books, and in particular The Fantastic Four by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee, which will affect its style of narrative.
After finishing high school, he enrolled at 'DSU[disambiguation needed], the faculty of Geology, another experience that marked him deeply. While at university, Ortolani draws his characters first, and the theme of geology became a catchphrase of the first issues of his major work, Rat-Man.
In 1989 endured the publishing house Comic Art two stories: the tragic and the other comic. The publisher Rinaldo Traini published the com -
Yi Yang
Yi Yang, classe ’94, ha una grande passione per Kon Satoshi e per il cibo… tranne la rucola! Si è trasferita in Italia nel 2013 dove vive e lavora. Nel 2016 è stata selezionata per l’Illustrators Exibition del Bologna Children’s Book Fair e ha pubblicato Aiuto! (BAO Publishing), illustrato A colorful day (TianTian Publishing) e Sasso il pittore, sempre per il mercato cinese. Collabora con svariate riviste e Case editrici tra cui: ChunFengWenYi e Holding Limited.
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Franco Berrino
Franco Berrino è un medico ed epidemiologo italiano.
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Laureatosi in medicina e chirurgia magna cum laude all'Università degli Studi di Torino nel 1969 e specializzatosi in anatomia patologica, si è poi dedicato soprattutto all'epidemiologia dei tumori. Dal 1975 al 2015 ha lavorato all'Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, dove ha diretto il Dipartimento di medicina preventiva e predittiva.
Autore di molte pubblicazioni scientifiche, ha collaborato al Food, nutrition, physical activity and the prevention of cancer,pubblicato nel 2007 dal World Cancer Research Fund International. Suoi interventi particolarmente significativi sono lo studio per lo sviluppo dei registri tumori in Italia, la collaborazione al progetto europeo sulla sopravvivenza -
Andrea Pennacchi
Laureato in Lingue e letterature straniere moderne presso l'Università degli Studi di Padova, Pennacchi inizia la sua formazione da attore con il Teatro popolare di ricerca - Centro universitario teatrale di Padova. Successivamente, grazie a una collaborazione con il regista Gigi Dall'Aglio in qualità di assistente, apprende i fondamenti della regia e della scrittura teatrale. Nel 2011 scrive e interpreta lo spettacolo Eroi, con la regia di Mirko Artuso, che si classifica tra i finalisti per il Premio Off del Teatro Stabile del Veneto. Nello stesso anno interpreta il ruolo di Sandro nel film Io sono Li di Andrea Segre.
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Mentre prosegue la sua carriera di attore teatrale e drammaturgo con lo spettacolo Villan People, che debutta nel 2013 al Pi