Yak Rivais

Yak Rivais

Yak Rivais (is the pseudonym of Yannick Rivais ), born in 1939 in Fougères , France. He is a French artist and writer who is best known as a children's book author . He worked as a teacher until 1994 .

Live and act

As an artist he has had exhibitions of his pictures and caricatures in Paris, Frankfurt, Munich, Brussels and Montreal. He made many trips to India, Egypt, Nepal, Kenya and the former USSR. His humorous drawings can be found at Fluide Glacial and in the Almanach Vermot .

In total, he published more than 50 novels and short stories, in which he became known in the German-speaking world, primarily through his children's stories. As with his friend Pierre Gripari and his Contes de la Rue Broca and Contes de la Folie Mericourt , these are also stories of witches and fantastic tales from a certain Parisian street district with Rivais. In his Contes de la Rue de Bretagne he writes about witches, ghosts, goblins, little devils and other fairy tale characters and also uses word games.

The Nürnberger Nachrichten wrote about his first German-language children's book “Fiffi und die Hexe”: “A simple story like in real life, accurately pointed, funny and sad, a pleasure to read.”

Rivais is head of the children's book department at the French publisher Belfond.

Works

• Les Demoiselles d'A. Belfond, Paris 1979, ISBN 2-7144-1254-8 .
• Contes de la Rue de Bretagne. Illustrations by Yak Rivais. La Table Ronde, Paris 1990, ISBN 2710304155 .
• Yak Rivais (illustrations), Michel Laclos (texts): Les Sorcières sont NRV L´école des loisirs, Paris 1989, ISBN 2211055036 .
• Fiffi and the witch. (Original title Mouche et la sorcière. ) Beltz and Gellberg, Weinheim 1996, ISBN 3-407-79734-6 .
• Fiffi heats up the witch. (Original title Mouche et la vielle aux cheveux rouges. ) Beltz and Gellberg, Weinheim 1999, ISBN 3-407-78340-X .

Awards

• 1980: Prix ​​de l'Anticonformisme for the novel Les Demoiselles d'A.
• Prix ​​de l'Humor Noir

literature

• Jean-Charles Angrand: Le Tombeau de Pierre. With an obituary by Yak Rivais on the death of Pierre Gripari . L´Age d´Homme, Lausanne 1996, ISBN 978-2-8251-0843-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Yak Rivais in the catalog of the German National Library