FOREIGN EXCHANGES:
ART SPIEGELMAN & MARJANE SATRAPI
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When: Tuesday, May 10, 2005
What Time: 7:00 p.m.
Where: The New School, 66 West 12th Street, Wollman Hall, Fifth floor (across court)
No. 5 in a series of international literary explorations: a conversation between Art Spiegelman and Marjane Satrapi (author of Persepolis 1 and 2 and Embroideries), moderated by Françoise Mouly.
The New School box office: (212) 229–5488. Price: $10. Call (212) 334–1660, ext. 107, for information.
This event is co-sponored by The New School Graduate Writing Department
and made possible by the Kaplen Foundation; the Lila Wallace Theater
Fund of the New York Community Trust; FJC, a Foundation of
Donor-Advised Funds; the New York State Council on the Arts, a state
agency; and PEN members.
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Marjane Satrapi
Marjane Satrapi is the author of the award-winning comic-book autobiography in two parts, Persepolis 1 and Persepolis 2,
depicting her youth during the Islamic Revolution. She has also written
several children’s books and her commentary and comics appear in
newspapers and magazines around the world, including The New York Times and The New Yorker. Born in Iran in 1969, Satrapi now lives in Paris. Her latest book is Embroideries.
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Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman is one of the world’s best-known graphic artists and the
recipient of multiple awards and fellowships, including a Guggenheim
fellowship and a nomination for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
In 1992, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his renowned comic-book Maus – A Survivor’s Tale,
which recasts the Holocaust as an animal fable. With his wife Françoise
Mouly, he co-founded the acclaimed avant-garde comics magazine RAW and continues a distinguished career publishing in The New Yorker and many other periodicals. His latest book is In the Shadow of No Towers. |
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Listen to MP3 clips from this event
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• Introduction
• Conversation
• Q & A |
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Click here to see photos from Foreign Exchanges 5. |
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Françoise Mouly
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Françoise Mouly joined The New Yorker as art editor in April 1993.
She co-founded Raw Books & Graphics in 1977, and for fifteen years
published artists' monographs and the annual "Streets of Soho and
Tribeca Map & Guide." Ms. Mouly has also served as the publisher,
designer, and co-editor with her husband, Art Spiegelman, of the
pioneering avant-garde comics anthology RAW, which launched in 1980.
This is the magazine that first brought acclaim to artists such as
Charles Burns, Sue Coe, Gary Panter, Chris Ware, Lorenzo Mattotti, and
Xavier Mariscal. It also first published Maus, Mr. Spiegelman's
Pulitzer Prize-winning comic book on the Holocaust. From 1987 to 1995
Ms. Mouly edited, designed and packaged books for Pantheon and Penguin
Books.
Ms. Mouly and Mr. Spiegelman have launched a RAW Junior division and
have collaborated on an anthology of comic strip stories for children,
Little Lit.
To commemorate The New Yorker's 75th anniversary, Ms. Mouly curated an
exhibit of contemporary cover art at the Galleria Comunale d'Arte
Moderna in Rome, and guest-curated a selection of a show at the
Whilhelm-Busch Museum in Hannover, Germany.
In the fall of 2000, Abbeville released Ms. Mouly's book, Covering
the New Yorker, a compilation of over 300 timeless New Yorker covers.
Born in Paris, Françoise Mouly studied architecture at the Ecole
Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts and moved to New York in 1974. She
and her husband, Art Spiegelman, live in Manhattan with their two
children, Nadja and Dashiell.
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