It is also her first venture into graphic novels, as well as a collaborative effort with her husband, for whom Aya was his first illustrating job in graphic novels. Aya Īya is Abouet's first published work. She left her job as a legal assistant to concentrate on writing full-time, including her two follow-up graphic novels to Aya ( Aya of Yop City and Aya: The Secrets Come Out). Abouet had tried to write novels for young people, but she gave up in frustration with what she perceived to be the constraints put on the genre by the publishers. She worked as a legal assistant in Paris while writing her first graphic novel, Aya. She currently lives in Romainville, a suburb of Paris, with her husband, illustrator Clément Oubrerie (who illustrates her graphic concepts), and their young son. Biography Ībouet was born in 1971 in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, and at the age of 12 she and her brother moved to France to their great uncle. Marguerite Abouet (born 1971) is an Ivorian writer of bandes dessinées, best known for her graphic novel series Aya. "Rising Star Award for Best Self-Publisher" Glyph Comics Awards (2008) Aya is the winner of the Best First Album award at the Angoul me International Comics Festival, the Children's Africana Book Award, and the Glyph Award was nominated for the Quill Award, the YALSA's Great Graphic Novels list, and the Eisner Award and was included on best of lists from The Washington Post, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal.Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for First Comic Book (2006) Drawn & Quarterly will release volumes four through six of the original French series (as yet unpublished in English) in Book Two. This reworked edition offers readers the chance to immerse themselves in Abouet's Yop City, bringing together the first three volumes of the series in Book One. Cl ment Oubrerie's warm colors and energetic, playful line connect expressively with Marguerite Abouet's vibrant writing.
It's a wryly funny, breezy account of the simple pleasures and private troubles. It is the story of the studious and clear-sighted nineteen-year-old Aya, her easygoing friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling relatives and neighbors. Aya is loosely based upon Marguerite Abouet's youth in Yop City. It's a golden time, and the nation, too-an oasis of affluence and stability in West Africa-seems fueled by something wondrous. Joann Sfar, cartoonist of The Rabbi's Cat Ivory Coast, 1978.
Aya is an irresistible comedy, a couple of love stories and a tale for becoming African. Num Pages: 382 pages, Full-Colour Illustrations. Description for Aya: Life in Yop City Paperback.
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