- Jean-Philippe Stassen
Jean-Philippe Stassen, born on
March 14 ,1966 inLiège (Belgium ).Biography
Born in Liège to a Flemish father and a
Jewish mother, Jean-Philippe Stassen started travelling at a young age. He travelled throughAlgeria ,Morocco ,Senegal ,Mali ,Benin ,Ivory Coast ,Ghana ,Togo ,Niger ,Nigeria ,Burkina Faso ,South Africa ,Tanzania ,Mozambique ,Uganda ,Burundi andRwanda . His experiences have been an influence throughout his work. He was introduced to the magazine "L'Écho des Savanes" when he was 17 years old. Stassen soon made his debut with the albums "Bahamas" and "Bullwhite" atÉditions Albin Michel in 1988 and 1989, both written by Denis Lapière.Stassen and Lapière continued their collaboration in the collection "Aire Libre" of
Dupuis , where they created the diptych "Le Bar du Vieux Français" in 1992. The story won them several prizes. Stassen then wrote "Louis le Portugais" on his own, another touching human tragedy, this time situated in the suburbs ofLiège . He then changed the setting of this stories to Africa again, and created "Thérèse". This was followed by "Déogratias", about thegenocide in Rwanda , and "Les Enfants".Jean-Philippe Stassen currently lives and works in Rwanda.
elective Bibliography
In English
"Deogratias, A Tale of Rwanda",
First Second Books , New York, 2006. ISBN 1-59643-103-2In French
* "Bahamas" (with
Denis Lapière ),Éditions Albin Michel ,Paris ,1988
* "Bullwhite" (withDenis Lapière ),Éditions Albin Michel ,Paris ,1989
* "Le Bar du vieux Français" (withDenis Lapière ),Dupuis ,Marcinelle
*# "Tome 1",1992
*# "Tome 2",1993
** "Intégrale",1999
* "Louis le Portugais",Dupuis ,Marcinelle ,1998
* "Thérèse",Dupuis ,Marcinelle ,1999
* "Déogratias ",Dupuis ,Marcinelle ,2000
* "Pawa : Chronique des monts de la Lune",Delcourt ,Paris ,2002
* "Les Enfants", éd.Dupuis ,Marcinelle ,2004
* "Nous avons tué le chien teigneux" (Luis Bernardo Honwana ),Chandeigne ,Paris ,2006
* "Cœur des ténèbres" (Heart of Darkness ,Joseph Conrad , withSylvain Venayre ),Gallimard ,Paris ,2006
* "Les visiteurs de Gibraltar" (in "XXI ", N°1),Paris ,2008 ee also
Bibliography of the Rwandan Genocide External links
* [http://www.dupuis.com/servlet/jpecat?pgm=VIEW_AUTHOR&lang=UK&AUTEUR_ID=51 Jean-Philippe Stassen biography (Dupuis website)]
* [http://www.editions-delcourt.fr/auteur.php?id=281 Biography and bibliography (Delcourt website - french)]
* [http://www.ssrc.org/gsc/newsletter4/fair.htm "The Rwandan genocide d'après la bande dessinée" by Jo Ellen Fair]
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