Mildred L. Batchelder Award
1 appearances
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Edition 45 (2013) Nominee
Zeina Abirached
ゼイナ・アビラシェッド
Zeina Abirached
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1981 （Beirut, Lebanon）
- Nationality
- Lebanon
- Languages
- Arabic, French
- Residence History
- Beirut, Lebanon → Paris, France
Career
- Occupations
- illustrator, graphic novelist, comic artist
- Active Years
- 2002-2024
- Influenced By
- David B, Jacques Tardi, Georges Perec
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA) | — | Fine Arts | — | — | Lebanon |
| École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs | — | Arts Décoratifs | — | — | France |
Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA)
Fine Arts
Country:
Lebanon
École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs
Arts Décoratifs
Country:
France
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | FACE French Voices Grant | A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return | — | PEN American Center and the French Embassy | 受賞 |
FACE French Voices Grant
2012
Work:
A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return
Organization:
PEN American Center and the French Embassy
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return
2007 graphic novelMemoir of childhood in war-torn Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War.
Lebanese Civil Warfamilymemory
Translations
- English translation by Graphic Universe/Lerner Publishing Group (2012)
Bibliography
- Le piano oriental (Casterman, 2015)
- Agatha de Beyrouth (Cambourakis, 2011)
- I remember Beirut (Cambourakis, 2009)
- A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return (2007)
- 38, rue Youssef Semaani (Cambourakis, 2006)
- Beyrouth Catharsis (Cambourakis, 2006)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- black-and-white comicsdecorative approachinventive graphic solutions
- Recurring Motifs
- childhood during Lebanese Civil Warfamily historygrandfather's piano inventionindividual and collective memory
Legacy
Known for autobiographical graphic novels on the Lebanese Civil War and family history, awarded the first FACE French Voices Grant for a graphic novel. Her work is in the permanent exhibit at the Comics Art Museum in Brussels.
Museums
- Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinée Brussels, Belgium
Trivia
- Her grandfather invented a new kind of piano.