France

Clément Oubrerie was born in Paris in 1966. He studied graphic arts at the ESAG (Ecole direction artistique et architecture intérieure) before spending two years in the US, where he published his first children's books. He has worked as an illustrator for publishers like Hachette, Mango, Gallimard, Albin Michel and Nathan since the early 1990s. He has also worked as a 3D animator, among others on the Canal+ series Les Moot-Moots, and on his own film Anna Gavalda. Between 2005 and 2010, he worked with his partner, the Ivorian writer Marguerite Abouet on Aya of Yop City, a comical series about everyday life in 1970s Abidjan, the capital of Ivory Coast, published by Gallimard. Aya won the First Book Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, the Children's Africana Book Award and the Glyph Award. It was also nominated for the Quill Award, the YALSA Great Graphic Novels list and the Eisner Award, as well as making best-of lists in The Washington Post, Booklist, Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal. In 2015, French documentary filmmaker Julie Birmant and Oubrerie told the story of Picasso Picasso through the magic of memory and symbolism in the award-winning graphic biography, Pablo. Another collaboration with Julie Birmant, Isadora, about the life of Isadora Duncan, was published in 2019.

Filmography

Aya of Yop City (2012)