Riad Sattouf
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Riad Sattouf in 2014
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5 May 1978 Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist |
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Notable works
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L'Arabe du futur (The Arab of the Future) La vie secrète des jeunes Les Beaux Gosses (The French Kissers) |
| http://www.riadsattouf.com | |
Riad Sattouf (Arabic: رياض سطوف; born 5 May 1978) is a French cartoonist, comics artist, and film director of Franco-Syrian origin. Sattouf is best known for his award-winning graphic memoir trilogy L'Arabe du futur (The Arab of the Future) and for his award-winning film Les Beaux Gosses (The French Kissers). He also worked for the satirical French weekly Charlie Hebdo for ten years, from 2004 to mid-2014.
Riad Sattouf was born in Paris to a Syrian father and French mother and spent his childhood in Libya and Syria, then returned to France to spend his teenage years in Brittany, studying in Rennes. An avid reader of cartoon books and periodicals, sent to him by his grandmother, he was fascinated by them. Although he was studying to become a pilot, he applied to study at École Pivaut and then Gobelins L'Ecole de L'Image to study animation. The famous cartoonist Olivier Vatine noticed his talent and introduced him to Guy Delcourt who was the owner of a cartoon Delcourt Publishing House specializing in cartoons that published his first book Petit Verglas based on a story line by Éric Corbeyran.
In a unique personal and humorous style, he narrated his own adolescent life observations in Manuel du puceau and Ma Circoncision published by Bréal Jeunesse Publishing House owned by Joann Sfar. The books were later reprinted by L'Association Publishing House. In Ma circoncision, he denounced circumcision as a cruel and absurd act, superimposed on the context of the socio-political life in his ancestral Syria in the 1980s.
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