Another collaboration with Julie Birmant, Isadora, about the life of Isadora Duncan, was published in 2019.The original D+Q volume of Aya debuted last year to much critical acclaim, receiving a Quill Award nomination, and praise for its accessibility and for the rare portrait of a warm and vibrant Africa it presented. In 2015, French documentary filmmaker Julie Birmant and Oubrerie told the story of Picasso Picasso through the magic of memory and symbolism in the award-winning graphic biography, Pablo. It was also nominated for the Quill Award, the YALSA Great Graphic Novels list and the Eisner Award, as well as making best-of lists in The Washington Post, Booklist, Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal. Aya won the First Book Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, the Children's Africana Book Award and the Glyph Award. Between 20, he worked with his partner, the Ivorian writer Marguerite Abouet on Aya of Yop City, a comical series about everyday life in 1970s Abidjan, the capital of Ivory Coast, published by Gallimard. He has also worked as a 3D animator, among others on the Canal+ series Les Moot-Moots, and on his own film Anna Gavalda. He has worked as an illustrator for publishers like Hachette, Mango, Gallimard, Albin Michel and Nathan since the early 1990s. He studied graphic arts at the ESAG (Ecole direction artistique et architecture intérieure) before spending two years in the US, where he published his first children's books. Learn MoreĬlément Oubrerie was born in Paris in 1966. Her 2013 animated film, Aya of Yop City, was nominated for a Best Animated Film French César Award in 2014.
Tens of thousands of copies, have been printed worldwide including in the U.S. Aya won the 2006 Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for First Comic Book and has sold over 200,000 copies in France. The result was the graphic novel Aya de Yopougon, published in North America as Aya, illustrated by Clemént Oubrerie, that recalls Abouet's Ivory Coast childhood in the 1970s, and tells the humorous, engaging stories of her friends and family as they navigate a happy and prosperous time in that country's history. Years later, after becoming a novelist for young adults, Abouet was drawn to telling the story of the world she remembered from her youth. At the age of twelve, she and her old brother went to stay with a great-uncle in Paris, where they further pursued their education.
She grew up during a time of great prosperity in the Ivory Coast.
Marguerite Abouet was born in 1971 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in Western Africa.
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