Riad Sattouf

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Riad Sattouf (center) at the Munich Book Show 2019

Riad Sattouf (born May 5, 1978 in Paris ) is a French comic book writer and film director . He is best known for the series The Arabs of Tomorrow , in which he tells of his childhood in Libya and Syria, and the film Boys Stay Boys .

Life

Riad Sattouf was born in Paris to a Syrian father and a French mother. He spent his childhood in Libya and Syria until he returned to France at the age of twelve. After graduating from high school in Rennes , he attended a school for applied arts in Nantes and studied animation at the École des Gobelins in Paris.

After the publication of the picture book My Circumcision in 2004, Sattouf was brought to court in France because he used the work to draw a picture of his father that was too negative. Because of this affair, the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo became aware of the young illustrator.

From 2004 to 2014 he drew the weekly comic strip La Vie secrète des jeunes (The secret life of youth) for Charlie Hebdo .

After his film Jacky in the Kingdom of Women flopped in 2014, Sattouf found plenty of time to turn back to drawing. In addition, he had helped friends flee Syria around 2011 and wanted to process these experiences as a comic. To first come to terms with his own story, he began working on The Arab of Tomorrow . The now (as of 2020) four-volume autobiographical series has become one of the most successful contemporary European comic series.

Since 2012 he has shared a studio with the draftsmen Christophe Blain , Mathieu Sapin and Joann Sfar . From 2014 his series Les Cahiers d'Esther appeared in the weekly magazine Nouvel Observateur . The German-language publication of Part 1, Esther's Diaries - My Life as a Ten-Year-old , received the Rudolph Dirks Award in 2017 and the Max and Moritz Prize in 2018 as the best international comic.

Books

  • 2003: Manuel du puceau (Bréal Jeunesse, Rosny-sous-Bois)
  • 2004: Ma circoncision (Bréal Jeunesse, Rosny-sous-Bois)
    • My circumcision (Reprodukt, Berlin 2010)
  • 2004: No sex in New York (Dargaud collection Poisson Pilote, Paris)
  • 2005: Retour au collège (Hachette Littératures collection, Paris)
  • 2007: La vie secrète des jeunes (L'Association collection, Ciboulette, Paris)
  • 2014: L'Arabe du futur, vol. 1: Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient (1978–1984) (Allary Editions, Paris)
    • The Arab of tomorrow. A childhood in the Middle East. Volume 1 (1978-1984) (Albrecht Knaus Verlag, Munich 2015)
  • 2015: L'Arabe du futur, vol. 2: Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient (1984–1985) (Allary Editions, Paris)
    • The Arab of tomorrow. A childhood in the Middle East. Volume 2 (1984-1985) (Albrecht Knaus Verlag, Munich 2016)
  • 2016: L'Arabe du futur, vol. 3: Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient (1985–1987) (Allary Editions, Paris)
    • The Arab of tomorrow. A childhood in the Middle East. Volume 3 (1985-1987) (Albrecht Knaus Verlag, Munich 2017)
  • 2016 Les Cahiers d'Esther - Histoire de mes 10 ans (Allary éditions, Paris)
    • Esther's diaries: My life as a ten-year-old (Reprokukt, Berlin 2017)
  • 2017 Les Cahiers d'Esther - Histoire de mes 11 ans (Allary éditions, Paris)
  • 2017 Les Cahiers d'Esther - Histoire de mes 12 ans (Allary éditions, Paris)
  • 2018: L'Arabe du futur, vol. 4: Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient (1987-1992) (Allary éditions, Paris)
    • The Arab of tomorrow. A childhood in the Middle East. Volume 4 (1987-1992) (Penguin Verlag, Munich 2019)

Movies

  • 2003: Petit vampire (screenplay based on Joann Sfar's comic book).
  • 2009: Les Beaux Gosses (screenplay, direction, music)
    • German title: Boys stay boys
  • 2010: Gainsbourg, vie héroïque by Joann Sfar (acting)
  • 2010: Mes Colocs (writer and director of the web series)
  • 2014: Jacky in the Kingdom of Women ( Jacky au royaume des filles , screenplay, director, music)

Awards

comics
Movies

Web links

Life

  1. ↑ Christian Gasser: Eyes that see everything. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. June 4, 2016, accessed July 5, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Lars von Törne: How Riad Sattouf became a bestselling draftsman. In: Der Tagesspiegel. May 5, 2019, accessed July 5, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Sattouf, Riyadh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French comic book writer and film director
DATE OF BIRTH May 5th 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris