Portrait: Photograph entitled Joann Sfar au salon du livre Radio France, 26 novembre 2011 by S. Veyrié, CC BY-SA 3.0 (accessed: May 29, 2018), via Wikimedia Commons.
Joann Sfar
, b. 1971
Born August 28, 1971 in Nice, France, of Jewish heritage. His father André was a lawyer of Sephardic Algerian origin, his mother Lilou was a singer with Ukrainian Ashkenazi roots. Joann Sfar is considered one of the most successful and original authors of comic books and graphic novels in France (Le Chat du Rabbin, Chagall en Russie, Le Bestiaire amoureux, Le petit Vampire, and many others). He is also an illustrator, movie producer (Gainsbourg, vie héroïque, 2010) and novelist (Le plus grand philosophe de France, 2014). In many of his artistic achievements, he uses philosophical and religious themes.
Bio prepared by Elżbieta Olechowska, University of Warsaw, elzbieta.olechowska@gmail.com
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