Zeina Abirached

Zeina Abirached (2016)

Zeina Abirached (born 1981 in Beirut ) is a Lebanese-French comic book artist and author of graphic novels .

Life

Zeina Abirached studied at the Académie libanaise des beaux-arts (ALBA) and in 2004 at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris. She has been working in France ever since.

Her comics deal with her childhood and the history of her family during the Lebanese civil war .

Works

• Catharsis . Paris: Cambourakis, 2006
• 38, rue Youssef Semaani . Paris: Cambourakis, 2006
• Mourir, partir, revenir - Le jeu des hirondelles . Paris: Cambourakis, 2007
  • The game of swallows . Translation by Paula Bulling & Tashy Endres. Berlin: Avant, 2013 ISBN 9783939080770
• Je me souviens - Beyrouth . Paris: Cambourakis, 2008
  • I remember: Beirut . Paula Bulling in Romanian. Berlin: Avant, 2014 ISBN 978-3-939080-99-2
• Mouton . Paris: Cambourakis, 2012
• Le piano oriental . Paris: Casterman, 2015. Prix Phénix de littérature 2015; Selection for the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême , 2016
  • Piano Oriental . Translation by Annika Wisniewski. Berlin: avant-verlag, 2016 ISBN 978-3-945034-48-4

literature

• Christoph Haas: A network called Beirut . Review. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 5, 2013, p. 14

Web links

• Literature by and about Zeina Abirached in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Zeina Abirached in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Short biography and reviews of works by Zeina Abirached at perlentaucher.de
• Zeina Abirached , at the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin , 2016