Golo (comic author)

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Golo (2008)

Golo (born August 26, 1948 in Bayonne , real name: Guy Nadaud ) is the stage name of a French author and illustrator of comics , who now lives and works in Qurna .

life and work

Golo was born Guy Nadaud in Bayonne in the French Basque Country in 1948 . He began his career as an illustrator in 1973 for the former French music magazine Best and various Egyptian magazines. He first came to Cairo in 1973 and has since been so fascinated by the city that he kept returning and finally settled there in 1993. In 2001 Golo moved to el-Qurna near Luxor in Upper Egypt . In the course of his career he published comics with the renowned publishing houses Futuropolis , Dargaud and Casterman . To date, Golo has designed almost twenty comic albums. Golo's greatest success is the comic biography about B. Traven with the title Portrait d'un anonyme célèbre (“Portrait of a famous stranger”) from 2007. In Egypt he works a. a. for the English-language weekly newspaper Cairo Times .

In 2012 he was a member of the jury for the award The Extraordinary Book of the children and youth program of the Berlin International Literature Festival .

Two comic albums by Golo have been published in German translation to this day: B. Traven - Portrait of a Famous Stranger (2011) in which he looked for traces of who the German writer B. Traven who worked under the pseudonym actually was, who emigrated to Mexico, as well as Chronicle of a Vanished City (2012), an album that he created together with his wife. His wife is a photographer from Paris who works under the stage name Dibou and lives with Golo in Qurna.

Reviews

The taz on Chronicle of a Vanished City : "As important and successful as the comic book is as a documentary book, the aftertaste it leaves behind is bland. Although Dibou often emphasizes her love for Qurna in a very striking way, in the end one does not doubt that she and Golo found a place of longing there and then lost it again. The chronicle of a vanished city, however, always strikes a maternal patronizing tone, which wants to teach the Qurnavis that they should reflect on their own cultural roots. Dibou in the comic as the keeper of these Culture has become so persistent in refusing to learn Arabic. She cannot completely shed the arrogance of the culture on which she has turned her back. But it is good that this is documented too. "

bibliography

  • Translations into German:
    • B. Traven - Portrait of a famous stranger , text and illustration: Golo, avant-verlag, 2011
    • Chronicle of a vanished city , text and illustration: Golo and Dibou, avant-verlag, 2012, original: Chroniques de la nécropole , 2011, Futuropolis
  • untranslated:
    • Ballades pour un voyou , scenario de Frank, éd. Le Square, coll.Bouquins Charlie, 1979
    • Rampeau! , scenario de Frank, éd. Futuropolis, coll. Hic et Nunc
    • # Volume 1, 1982
    • # Volume 2, 1987
    • Same player shoots again , scenario de Frank, éd. Le Square-Albin Michel, 1982
    • Le bonheur dans le crime , scenario de Frank, éd. Futuropolis, coll. Hic et Nunc, 1982
    • Nouvelles du front , scenario de Frank, éd. Futuropolis, coll. Hic et Nunc, 1985
    • La variant du dragon , scenario de Frank, éd. Casterman, coll. Studio, 1989
    • Mendiants et orgueilleux , ( Based on a book by Albert Cossery ), éd. Casterman, coll. Studio (À SUIVRE), 1991
    • Le piéton du Caire in L'Association en Égypte , éd. l'Association, coll. Éperluette, 1998
    • Sans titre in Comix 2000 , éd. l'Association, 2000
    • Made in Taïwan , éd. du Pigeonnier, 2001
    • La taverne des souvenirs imaginaires , éd. Sketch, 2003
    • Les couleurs de l'infamie , (Based on a script by Albert Cossery), éd. Dargaud , coll.Poisson Pilote, 2003
    • Carnets du Caire , éd. Les Rêveurs, coll. On verra bien
    • # Samir , 2004
    • # Goudah , 2006
    • B. Traven, portrait d'un anonyme célèbre , éd. Futuropolis, 2007
    • Mes mille et une nuits au Caire , éd. Futuropolis, 2009
    • Mes mille et une nuits au Caire (Deuxième époque) , éd. Futuropolis, 2010
    • Chroniques de la nécropole , in collaboration with Dibou, éd. Futuropolis, 2011

Festival participation

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dibou ( Memento of the original dated February 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Internationaler Comic-Salon Erlangen, accessed on May 13, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.comic-salon.de
  2. ↑ http://www.taz.de/1/archiv/digitaz/artikel/?ressort=ku&dig=2012%2F10%2F04%2Fa0143&cHash=f9b9da75d4be787880cb7e2d7fc318bb
personal data
SURNAME Golo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nadaud, Guy (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayonne