Three German comic authors, including the Hamburg professor Anke Feuchtberger, have been awarded the renowned Artémisia Prize in France.
The East Berlin native received the Grand Prix Artémisia on Thursday for her graphic novel “Comrade Cuckoo,” which was published in Germany in 2023 and in France last year. The work was also nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize.
“Comrade Cuckoo” is “a masterpiece that has both historical and fantastic features and is also partly autobiographical,” explained the jury. The graphic novel tells the story of two friends who grow up in a fictional village in the 1960s, using mostly black and white drawings.
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The Berlin journalist and author Julia Korbik and the comic artist Julia Bernhard received another prize for their biography of the French writer Simone de Beauvoir entitled “I want everything from life”.
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© Julia Bernhard: Simone de Beauvoir
The Artémisia Foundation promotes the visibility of female authors in the largely male-dominated comics scene. It awards its prizes on January 9th, the birthday of Simone de Beauvoir, who was born in 1908 and died at the age of 78.