Haydé

Haydé (actually: Haydé Ardalan; * 1956 in Cologne ) is a children's book author, comic artist and illustrator who is particularly successful with the figure she created of the cat Milton .

Life & Work

Haydé Ardalan was born in Cologne in 1956 into an Iranian diplomatic family. From 1978 she completed a graphic design degree at the Ecole d'Art visuel in Lausanne and worked as an assistant and employee for a graphic designer. She also worked for ten years as an illustrator for the former Swiss weekly newspaper L'Hebdo . She has also been the designer of the posters for the Petit Théâtre de Lausanne for many years and works for the Lausanne city council in the field of children and public health.

In 1997 she developed the comic figure Milton - based on the model of her own cat and as a homage to the American graphic designer Milton Glaser - and published the first children's album with Edition Joie de lire, entitled Moi, Milton (Eng. Permit, Milton). Milton is a black and white city cat "who is not like other cats". The albums became an instant hit with audiences, translated into numerous languages ​​(including Spanish, Japanese, and Dutch) and awarded literary prizes.

More titles followed by 2003, a total of six, before Haydé's work stalled: first her parents died in Tehran , then her editor Anne Salem-Marin at Joie de lire , and finally she also had to accept the death of her original Milton, who was 17 years old had become.

It wasn't until 2010 that Haydé came out again with a - stylistically completely different - Milton album: completely in black and white, as a comic with individual panels under the title La fugue de Milton, in which she tells a runaway story with Milton. She had started the album together with Salem-Marin, but was unable to complete and release it for years.

Awards

• 1997: Les plus beaux livres de la Suisse for Moi, Milton

Publications (selection)

Original editions

Albums

• Moi, Milton (1997). Genève: Ed. La Joie de lire, 1997, ISBN 2-88258-095-9 . Réimpr. 06/2007
• Milton et le corbeau . Genève: Ed. La Joie de lire, 2007, ISBN 2-88258-392-3
• Milton chez le vétérinaire . Genève: Ed. La Joie de lire, 1998, ISBN 2-88258-124-6
• Le Noël de Milton . Genève: Ed. La Joie de lire, 1999, ISBN 2-88258-157-2
• Mais où est passé Milton? Genève: Ed. La Joie de lire, 2001, ISBN 2-88258-176-9
• Les Vacances de Milton . Genève: Ed. La Joie de lire, 2003, [36] p. ISBN 2-88258-262-5
• Milton au musée / Gabriel Umstätter; Haydé. Genève: Ed. La Joie de lire, 2010, 42 p. ISBN 978-2-88908-031-1
• Milton, quand j'étais petit . Genève: Ed. La Joie de lire, 2012, [36] p. ISBN 978-2-88908-123-3
• Que fait Milton? Genève: Ed. La Joie de lire, 2017, [16] p. ISBN 978-2-88908-381-7

Comic

• La Fugue de Milton . Genève: Ed. La Joie de lire, 2010, 36 p. (Collection somnambule). ISBN 978-2-88258-411-3

Published in German

• Allow me, Milton . Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-8067-5169-7 (French: Moi, Milton . Translated by Kathrin Jockusch).
• Where is Milton? Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-8067-5170-3 (French: Mais où est passé Milton? Translated by Kathrin Jockusch).
• Milton celebrates Christmas . Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-8067-5171-0 (French: Le Noe͏ ̈ l de Milton . Translated by Kathrin Jockusch).
• One word a picture of Haydé . Joie de Lire, Genève 2008, ISBN 978-2-88258-461-8 (French: L'imagier de Haydé .).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} La fugue de Milton. Haydé ressuscite Milton. (No longer available online.) In: L'Hebdo. 2010, archived from the original on June 24, 2010 ; accessed on February 17, 2020 (French). 
2. ↑ Hayde - Le livre sur les quais. Retrieved February 17, 2020 . 
3. ^ Editions La Joie de Lire - Haydé Ardalan. Retrieved February 17, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Haydé. In: lajoiedelire.ch. Retrieved February 17, 2020 (French). 
5. ↑ La Fugue de Milton. In: lajoiedelire.ch. Retrieved February 17, 2020 (French). 
6. ^ Editions La Joie de Lire - Haydé Ardalan. Retrieved February 17, 2020 .