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November 2,
2008 - Book signing and reviews
(Belgium,
France)
On the occasion of
the publication of Je
ne verrai pas Okinawa
and the new edition of l'Apprenti
Japonais,
Aurélia Aurita and Frédéric Boilet
will be at Tropismes
bookstore in Brussels on Friday, November 14 from 6-8 p.m.
for a
discussion followed by a book signing.
Tropismes bookstore
4, galerie du Roi
1000 Brussels
Belgium
At the
"media" corner, you will find two reviews on Je ne verrai pas Okinawa.
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September 18,
2008 - Back to work ! (Belgium,
France, Ireland, Italy)
Summer's lazy days
are gone...
My next book, Je ne verrai pas Okinawa, will be out
on October 15 (in
less than one month !!!). You can see an excerpt at the Impressions
Nouvelles website. This time, there won't be a big
book-signing
tour. I
loved the two previous ones, but they literally exhausted me
(physically and emotionally)... I have to take it easy ! This winter,
I may only attend one or two events, notably in a Brussels bookstore in
November. I'll let you know as soon as I get more information.
After the publications in France, Spain (2006) and Brazil (2007), Fraise
et Chocolat will be
released in Italy in the first semester of
2009 by Coniglio
Editore (yes, "coniglio" means "rabbit" in Italian).
The English version of my earlier note entitled "Go sit in the corner,
Aurita !" (concerning my opinion on awards and other
"official" selections) is now available, thanks to Irish writer and
critic Katherine
Farmar. Her translation of my note appeared in a merciless - but so
true
and so beneficial ! - article about the Eisner Awards. You can read the
entire article here.
To finish on a cheerful note, I have put online my illustrations
for French daily
newspaper Libération, which appeared on August 2. Although
it is in French, I assume most readers will get the picture...
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July 30,
2008 - Some news, at last...
Wow, has it really been 6 months since my last update ? How time
flies...
(I intended to put this drawing online a month ago...)
I was working on my next book, which will be released in
France in October by Les
Impressions Nouvelles.
Meanwhile, Fraise et Chocolat lives its life... It
may soon be available in a new language.
And several of my illustrations should appear in French daily
newspaper Libération
on Saturday, August 2...
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January 4,
2008 - Happy new year (again) !!!
Oh, it's party time
after all.... So here's another greeting card for you !
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January 3,
2008 - Aurita.net is one year old
today !
Well, as a matter of
fact, it was YESTERDAY...
I messed up again : last year I was already one day late (I wanted to
launch the website on January 1, 2007)... Next year I'll be three days
late !
Anyway, happy new year 2008 !!!
To celebrate the new year and the site's birthday, rendez-vous at the
"bonus" section ! It will be my greeting card, the word "love" written
40 times in the same page...
...we don't do things half-heartedly at aurita.net !
December 22,
2007 - Radio interview (France)
On Friday,
December 21 at 3 p.m., I was Tewfik
Hakem's
guest on the A plus d'un titre program on France
Culture.
More information at the program's website
At the "media"
corner, you can download the program in mp3 format.
December 3,
2007 - New articles (Belgium, France,
Spain)
Well, the tour is
over...
Lots of nice encounters, closeness and expressions of affection that
turned me upside down !
Many thanks to you all !!!
With all this, I've been late with the updates... At the "media"
corner, you'll find 5 new articles (Livres Hebdo, El País,
Público.es, 20Minutes.fr and La Libre Belgique). I've also
updated my "comics" page.
Otherwise, between signings, I made my first short story in color ! It
is 7 pages long and will be published in the next special issue of
Beaux-Arts Magazine (France) on December 15.
I'll be able to rest a bit, before I start my next project...
September 28,
2007 - Aurélia
Aurita and Frédéric Boilet get it on and get it
out this Fall
(Belgium, France, Spain)
On the occasion of
the simultaneous publication in France and Spain of
Fraise et Chocolat
2 and the Spanish releases of Elles and Yukiko's
Spinach, Aurélia Aurita et
Frédéric Boilet will
go on a book-signing tour in Paris, Saint-Malo, Barcelona,
Clermont-Ferrand, Lyon, Brussels, Liège, Metz and Nancy,
between October 19 and December 1.
More information at boilet.net
August 23,
2007 - Fraise et Chocolat
2 (France)
The first sample
pages of Fraise
et Chocolat 2 are now available at the Impressions
Nouvelles website (in French) !
It is a complete mini-episode of 3 pages... More sample pages will be unveiled until
the book is released on October 19, 2007...
And if you have the time, please check out boilet.net,
Frédéric has just put new
souvenir pictures of our tours in Finland, Portugal and Bolivia
!
August 14,
2007 - Morango e
Chocolate (Brazil)
Fraise et Chocolat has just
been released in Brazil by
Casa 21 !
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July
4, 2007 - Fraise et Chocolat
2 (France)
It's
official : Fraise et Chocolat 2 will be released in
France on October
19, 2007 by Les
Impressions Nouvelles ! I haven't got much time left to
finish it... It'll probably take me the whole summer ! Well, anyway,
summer is the worst season in Japan. Too hot and humid to go out...
Better stay at home and work !
In January, I said there would be excerpts of my new book on this
website... Unfortunately, I don't have enough hindsight yet to choose
the most representative ones... But here's the cover as well as an
extract from the press release (in French) :
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Tout
le monde a lu Fraise et Chocolat, l'un des
événements éditoriaux de 2006 qui a
permis la découverte d'une voix de femme totalement nouvelle
en bande dessinée. Personne n'avait jamais parlé
d'amour et de sexe comme Aurélia Aurita: avec franchise mais
aussi avec humour, avec crudité mais non sans candeur.
Le
temps passe. “Chocolat” (Chenda) aime toujours
“Fraise” (Frédéric), et en
est toujours aimée, mais aux ébats se
mêle le doute, l'enthousiasme se teinte de peur. Le monde
extérieur aussi est là: une amie attachante (Kan
Takahama), un voisin raciste, le quotidien et ses contraintes, la
menace de la séparation, les superstitions petites et
grandes de l'héroïne qui va jusqu'à
invoquer le divin… Mais surtout il y a l'amour, et les
vraies-fausses naïvetés qui font le style
incomparable d'Aurélia Aurita et l'enchantement du lecteur
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May
14, 2007 - Morango e
Chocolate (Brazil)
After the publications in French and Spanish (2006), Fraise
et Chocolat will be released in Portuguese in 2007 by Casa
21 (Brazil).
Meanwhile, Fraise et Chocolat 2 is in progress...
The French edition will be released next October by Les
Impressions Nouvelles.
April
17, 2007 - Nouvelle Manga in La Paz
(Bolivia)
From 18th
to 31st of May 2007
Quinto Encuentro Internacional De Historietas
Museo Tambo Quirquincho
Plaza Alonzo de Mendosa
La Paz, Bolivia
Presented in October 2005 at the Bunsei University of Art in Utsunomiya
(Japan), then in April 2006 at the ABC cinema in Toulouse (France) and
in October 2006 at the Festival Internacional de Banda Desenhada da
Amadora (Portugal), the Nouvelle Manga exhibition will open on May 18,
2007 at the Museo Tambo Quirquincho in La Paz (Bolivia), on the
occasion of the Quinto Encuentro Internacional De Historietas.
The exhibition will show original plates and reproductions from the
anthology Japan (Fanfare / Ponent Mon 2006) as well
as drawings from Fresa y Chocolate (Ponent Mon
2006), A Patch of Dreams by Hideji Oda (Fanfare /
Ponent Mon 2005), Mariko Parade by Kan Takahama
and Frédéric Boilet (Fanfare / Ponent Mon 2004)
and Yukiko's Spinach by
Frédéric Boilet (Fanfare / Ponent Mon 2003).
As guests of the festival and the Alliance
Française of Cochabamba, Aurélia Aurita
and Frédéric Boilet will be in La Paz and
Cochabamba from 15th to 24th of May.
Festival website (in Spanish)
Alliance Française of Cochabamba
website (in Spanish)
April 14,
2007 - A new interview (Switzerland)
At the "media"
corner, link to the complete transcript of an interview by Fabien
Thévenot, for an article that appeared today in
the Swiss newspaper Le Courrier (in French).
February
23, 2007 - Go sit in the corner,
Aurita ! (France)
Last 17th of February, having forgotten
about Angoulême for
many weeks and although I had thought that Fraise et Chocolat
was
sheltered from the masquerade of prizes, I learn from my publisher that
the book was chosen, with 5 other works, for the Young Talents of
Comics prize (endowed with €3,000) organised by Virgin, dBD
and Le Figaro magazine. Presented with a fait accompli, I write the
following email to one of the people responsible (extract):
Dear Frédéric Bosser,
(...) I understand that this distinction arises from a good intention,
but I regret I must ask you to withdraw my book from the selection.
My request has nothing to do with either the contents of the selection,
or the composition of the jury. This is not a refusal on the form, but
on the basis, even the principle of prizes. Quite simply, I do not
admit that a book can be judged by an authority, and that works that
are of their essence unique and singular can be compared and submitted
to a hierarchy.
I would be grateful if you would inform me of the manner in which you
will proceed with this deselection. For example, you could quickly
nominate another book in place of mine? (...)
Cordially,
Aurélia Aurita
Here is an extract of the response that was
made to me:
Aurélia,
A mail to give you our position, we were all disappointed by your
position even if we understand so it was decided not to withdraw you
from the selection but to automatically attribute to you the 6th place.
(...)
Cordially,
François-Régis Houel
Stunned, I take all the same the precaution
of asking if this response
is serious or if it's a joke. They respond that it was "serious
humour"...
In proposing that my book be discreetly withdrawn from the selection, I
hoped to avoid all polemics, and publicity surrounding my request. The
people in charge rejected my demand, they left me no other choice but
to explain myself publically by my own means, in drawings... and with
"serious humour"?
English translation courtesy of Katherine
Farmar.
Link to French
version.
January
2, 2007 - Launching of Aurita.net !
Welcome to my very
first website !
Frédéric gave me this domain name for my birthday.
I designed this website myself, so please be gentle... I forced myself
to learn, so I wouldn't have to rely on other people to update it. This
is why I prefer to call it my "mini website"... It will improve with my
computer skills !
Right now, I am in Japan working on the sequel to Fraise et
Chocolat... The book will be approximately 200 pages long and
it will be published in France in Autumn 2007. I may put some excerpts
in the "bonus" part of this website.
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