Emmanuel Guibert
Emmanuel Guibert was born in Paris in 1964. After taking his baccalauréat in literature, he attended the Hourdé school for a year. His first album, Brune (Albin Michel, 1992), took seven years to complete. The author then joined a small circle of young illustrators around L'Association. In 1997, he and Joann Sfar published La Fille du professeur (Dupuis), which won the Alph'Art coup de cœur and the Prix René Goscinny. In 2001, the duo created the Black Olives series (Dupuis) - the life of a Jewish child in Judea 2,000 years ago.
The Le Photographe trilogy, begun in 2003, combines his drawings with Didier Lefèvre's photographs, and tells the story of an authentic humanitarian mission in the Afghan valleys in 1986. It won the Prix des libraires de bande dessinée in 2004, the Essentiel d'Angoulême in 2007, and the Eisner and Micheluzzi awards in 2010.
Guibert went on to produce L'Enfance d'Alan (Grand Prix de l'ACBD 2013) and Martha & Alan for L'Association - the successor to his La Guerre d'Alan trilogy begun in 2000. He is also responsible for the Ariol children's series (Bayard Presse), which totals some fifteen albums. He also publishes sketchbooks, most recently Italia (Dupuis, 2015).
Knighted in the Ordre national des arts et des lettres, he was awarded the Prix René Goscinny in 2017 for his body of work. In 2020, Emmanuel Guibert was awarded the Grand Prix at the 47th Angoulême International ComicsFestival .
