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Edward Gauvin
The translator of more than 400 graphic novels, Edward Gauvin has received fellowships and residencies from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim and Lannan foundations, PEN America, and the French and Belgian governments. His award-winning work has featured in the New York Times, Harper’s, and the Guardian. Comics he has translated have received over twenty Eisner nominations and two Batchelder Honors from the American Library Association. Among his recent publications are an intellectual autobiography of his pen name in McSweeney’s Quarterly, and Doctor Moebius and Mister Gir, Numa Sadoul’s collection of career-spanning interviews with the late comics master, part of Dark Horse comics’ Moebius library.
Books by Edward Gauvin
Last of the Atlases
Fabien Vehlmann, Gwen de Bonneval, Edward Gauvin (translator)
“This was a book that took the creators almost a decade to bring to life. It’s set in a world much like our own, except that right after World War II, the French under De Gaulle’s government are able to greatly modernize Algeria using giant robots. That massive modernization delays insurrectionary desires, such that the Algerian War breaks out fifteen years later than it does in our world. But then there’s a disastrous accident involving one of the nuclear-powered robots, and the entire Atlas program is scrapped.” Read more...
The Best European Graphic Novels
Edward Gauvin, Translator
“Eleven artists, eleven chapters from cuneiform to Comic Sans, the whole thing is lent a gorgeous graphic identity by none other than the cantankerous, radical underground cartoonist and diehard indie Jean-Christophe Menu. As a founding member of L’Association, he masterminded their selection and design of forgotten classics brought back into print. Together, they’ve created a bristling yet unified history of a ubiquitous yet somehow still niche subject. Serifs, frakturs, Gutenberg, Garamond, Gill Sans, Bauhaus, newspapers and Letraset.” Read more...
The Best European Graphic Novels
Edward Gauvin, Translator
Interviews with Edward Gauvin
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Last of the Atlases
Fabien Vehlmann, Gwen de Bonneval, Edward Gauvin (translator) -
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The Labyrinth
by Guido Buzzelli & Jamie Richards (translator) -
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Irmina
by Barbara Yelin & Michael Waaler (translator) -
4
Dirty Thirty: Thirty Years of Making a Scene
by Stripburger -
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The ABC of Typography
David Rault, Edward Gauvin (translator)
The Best European Graphic Novels, recommended by Edward Gauvin
The Best European Graphic Novels, recommended by Edward Gauvin
The European graphic novel scene has unparalleled range. From indie science fiction to historical fiction, from France to Slovenia, there’s a sheer diversity of styles, palettes, and stories on display. Fulbright-winning and Eisner-nominated translator Edward Gauvin recommends five European graphic novels that show off the continent’s best writers, artists, and writer-artists.
Interviews where books by Edward Gauvin were recommended
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1
Last of the Atlases
Fabien Vehlmann, Gwen de Bonneval, Edward Gauvin (translator) -
2
The Labyrinth
by Guido Buzzelli & Jamie Richards (translator) -
3
Irmina
by Barbara Yelin & Michael Waaler (translator) -
4
Dirty Thirty: Thirty Years of Making a Scene
by Stripburger -
5
The ABC of Typography
David Rault, Edward Gauvin (translator)
The Best European Graphic Novels, recommended by Edward Gauvin
The Best European Graphic Novels, recommended by Edward Gauvin
The European graphic novel scene has unparalleled range. From indie science fiction to historical fiction, from France to Slovenia, there’s a sheer diversity of styles, palettes, and stories on display. Fulbright-winning and Eisner-nominated translator Edward Gauvin recommends five European graphic novels that show off the continent’s best writers, artists, and writer-artists.
