In Angoulême, never two without three for Riad Sattouf. After winning two Fauve d’or in 2010 and 2015, the Grand Prix of the Angoulême International Comics Festival 2023 was awarded to him on Wednesday January 25, on the occasion of the opening ceremony of the FIBD 2023. author of The Arab of the future and Notebooks of Estheris this time distinguished for all of his work.
Between France and the Middle East
Born in Paris in 1975, Riad Sattouf lives part of his childhood between Libya and Syria, period of which he finishes telling the adventures in the sixth and last opus of The Arabic of the future (1994-2011) (Allary editions, 2022). It is the discovery of Adventures of Tintin at the age of 5 who determined the rest of my life “confided the author in an interview au Mondein November 2020.
At the age of 12, Riad Sattouff returned to France and joined a school of applied arts in Nantes. After a stint at the Pivaut school, he then joined the Gobelins school, thanks to which he met the publisher Guy Delcourt, who ordered the three volumes of a first series from him. Little Ice.
Prolific first steps
At the same time, Riad Sattouf moved into a Parisian studio alongside Christophe Blain, Mathieu Sapin et Joann Starwhich helped to awaken the style of the young designer, by editing Virgin’s Handbook et my circumcision (2002). At the same time, Riad Sattouf signs with Dargaud and publishes the album The Poor Adventures of Jeremycrowned with the René-Goscinny prize for best screenplay.
Until 2014, the artist invites himself into the pages of Charlie Hebdo and launches, at the same time, a series bordering on the tragicomic for Fluide glacial and whose second and third volumes received, one in the other, the Jacques-Lob prize then the Fauve d’or d’Angoulême 2010.
At the same time, Riad Sattouf experimented with filmmaking with his screenplay The beautiful kids. The film was a real success and won the César for best film (2010). It will also reveal the actor Vincent Lacosterecently found in the publishing house, “Books of the Future” in which Riad Sattouf publishes The young actor 1: adventures of Vincent Lacoste at the cinemapublished in 2021.
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The Arabic of the future, ultimate success
If his favorite material, youth, makes the success of his works, it is especially with his series The Arabic of the future, started in 2014, that Riad Sattouff propels itself internationally. The first five volumes, which tell of his youth and adolescence in the Middle East, have been translated into 23 languages and have sold more than 3 million copies.
The first volume received the Fauve d’or from Angoulême in 2015 and the Graphic Novel Prize awarded by the Los Angeles Time.
The last volume in the series, A youth in the Middle East (1994-2011) (Allary editions) was printed in 370,000 copies and has risen many times on the podium of the best sales according to GFK.
Riad Sattouf succeeds Julie Doucetwinner of the 2022 Grand Prix d’Angoulême.
