from the February 2015 issue
Black Spring
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Nonfiction
Maxence Emery
Maxence Emery is a multifaceted author. A globetrotter and photographer, he photographed homeless people for Maximilien Le Roy's book Hosni. He met Alejandro González Raga in Madrid through Reporters Without Borders and decided to tell his powerful story of Cuba as a comic book, illustrated by Thomas Humeau.
Thomas Humeau
Thomas Humeau was born in 1987 in Angers, France, and studied art at the prestigious Estienne and Olivier de Serre, in Paris. He contributed to the collection 13m28 and published his first book, Desert Park, in 2010. He works in London for the creative agency Harriman Steel.
Translated from French by Edward Gauvin
A full-time freelance translator since 2006, Edward Gauvin has made a living by translating almost exclusively creative work in various fields from film to fiction, with a personal focus on contemporary comics (BD) and post-Surrealist literatures of the fantastic. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s, and World Literature Today, and twice placed in the British Comparative Literature Association’s John Dryden Translation Competition. It has also been shortlisted for several major awards—the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize, the Albertine Prize, the Best Translated Book Award, the National Translation Award—and twice nominated for French-American Foundation Translation Prize. He has received fellowships from the NEA, PEN America, the Fulbright program, and the Centre National du Livre, as well as residencies from Ledig House, the Lannan Foundation, the Banff Centre, and the Belgian government. A multiple grantee of the French Voices program from the French Embassy, he is a frequent contributor to their cultural initiatives. As a translation advocate, he has written widely, spoken at universities and festivals, and taught at the Bread Loaf Translation Conference. The translator of over 350 graphic novels, he is a contributing editor for comics at Words Without Borders.
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