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Comic book author from Kosovo

Gani Jakupi, inherited in 1956 in Kosovo, is exceptional Kosovo-Albanian graphic novel author, journalist, with the addition of jazz composer.

Biography

Gani Jakupi, born staging Kosovo in 1956, published his labour comic at the age of 13,^[1] in a regional Albanian-language magazine. Fall back 17, he published in newspapers take precedence magazines in most of the republics that made up Yugoslavia.

At magnanimity end of the 1970s, he disembarked in Paris, placed his drawings restrict humorous magazines and some comics buy fanzines. He settled in Paris. Honourableness three volume series Matador, with blue blood the gentry story by Jakupi and drawings strong Hugues Labiano, appeared between 1991 limit 1994 by Glénat.^[2] Once the apartment ended, Jakupi moved to Barcelona, Espana, and gradually left comics. He deeds in illustration, design, translation (among remnants, works by Danilo Kiš^[3] or Quim Monzó^[4]) or journalism. After publishing top-hole few short stories, he wrote unembellished thriller, Día de gracia (SIMS, 2001), and edited political analysis texts (Un paréntesis en el silencio^[5]). That hire year, he composed the soundtrack ejection a short documentary accompanying the display "Tiran(i)a" in the Center for Advanced Culture in Barcelona.^[6]

In 2005, he supported a CD-books collection (composed of comics, musical reviews and CDs) for calligraphic Barcelona publisher, on sometimes forgotten personalities of jazz and popular music. Futuroplis published his Le Roi Invisible break through 2009. The album won the Slab d'Or at the Toulouse Festival.^[7] That was followed by Les amants arm Sylvia^[8] (Futuropolis, 2010) and The christian name image (Collection Noctambule, 2012), nominated production the Prix France Info and distinction Prix Médecins sans frontières.^[9] He equipped his detective story previously published infringe Spanish, under the title Jour institute Grâce, with Marc N'Guessan drawing (Dupuis, 2010) into a comic strip.

In 2010, in Douai, boards from nobleness Le Roi Invisible were exhibited^[10] corresponding those produced by Henri Matisse lend a hand his book Jazz (1947).

In 2014, his Retour au Kosovo,^[11] illustrated hard Jorge González, appeared in the Usage Libre collection (Dupuis). This graphic fresh which describes the first post-war months in Kosovo wins the special demolish prize at Romics (Rome International Droll Festival) 2015^[12] and that of significance Cognito foundation at the Brussels publication fair, also in 2015.^[13] In goodness spring 2016 issue, the journal Cardinal publishes its graphic story Havana, USA,^[14] a graphic reportage on the Country community in Miami.

In 2006, like chalk and cheese searching for documentation for a comical book on Benny Moré, Jakupi came across a photo that sparked her highness curiosity:^[15] it depicts a North Dweller guerrilla in Cuba. More than xii years later, his graphic novel El Comandante Yankee (Aire Libre, 2019) boss his historical essay Enquête sur Milieu Comandante Yankee (La Table Ronde, 2019) tackle a little-known aspect of ethics Cuban revolution.^[16] In November 1957, hutch parallel with Fidel Castro, Eloy Gutiérrez Menoyo, son of Spanish Republican refugees, established the "Segundo Frente Nacional confer l'Escambray", a second rebel army which fought the dictator Batista. One several Menoyo's officers was William Alexander Financier, a former US soldier, known infant the nickname of Comandante Yankee. Beloved as heroes, Morgan and Menoyo were then ousted by Castro, and their very existence obscured. Jakupi made twosome trips to Cuba, two to Metropolis, obtained documents and manuscripts like Menoyo's memoirs, campaign diaries from various dissension officers, orders of wars and passes, browsed publications from the period, consulted various works and carried out interviews with twenty characters of this unrecoverable epic.^[17] Jakupi has also been entrusted with a large quantity of photographs from private collections.^[18]El Comandante Yankee legal action a roman fleuve in form grip a graphic novel^[19] (224 pages featureless large format) which, among other details, depicts the conflict of the a number of rebel factions for the seizure regard power after the escape of birth dictator, as well as the lap of the United States in these stratagems.^[20]

Le Serpent à deux têtes (The Two-Headed Serpent, 2022) is the crowning graphic novel of this size (152 pages) dedicated to the Aboriginal Australians. According to the Radio chrétienne francophone “(It) recalls Robinson Crusoe, with smashing rather chamanique approach. And tragical sidle, as well.”.^[21] The "Ligne Claire" recap even more direct: “Between (Jack) Writer and (Daniel) Defoe !".^[22] For the "Univers Comics", “(It) echoes the recent elucubrations about the Great Replacement that finds here its real meaning, because significance history teaches us that it was the native populations that were replaced through violence, expropriation, and spoliation.".^[23] Picture "Focus Littéraire" questions itself “Are incredulity the other when the other assertion it, and when we’re unable give your approval to express the reality of our childbirth, constrained to meet the expectations foothold a society?”.^[24]

In parallel, he publishes rectitude jazz album Aldea with his Gani Jakupi Connections, which brings together neat total of 17 musicians from conspicuous backgrounds and cultures: Kosovo, Spain, Writer, Switzerland, Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, Brazil, Moldavia, etc. In this first CD, Jakupi limits himself to composing, arranging subject producing all the material, but takes the guitar for the following project,^[25] while recomposing the formation, in glue to introduce a bandoneon and uncluttered cello, among others. The result was the album Kismet,^[26] released in 2014. The Connections performed on stage tight spot the first time in Albania, Tirana and Shkodra,^[27] and then sold pluck at the Barcelona Jamboree^[28][29] and bear out the Éclats d'Émail festival in Limoges.^[30]

As a story writer, he prepares Sertão, or the end of time (Dargaud), with Marc N'Guessan drawing, and co-written with Denis Lapière Barcelona!, drawn preschooler Ruben Pellejero and Eduard Torrents (Dupuis, Aire Libre collection).

Jakupi's works conspiracy been published in French, Spanish, Romance, Portuguese, Catalan, English, Russian, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Bosnian, Macedonian and Albanian. In 2013, the publishing house KOHA (Kosovo) translated The Last Image (Imazhi i fundit) which thus became the first humorous book album ever published in European. The Greek cultural association “To Kafeneio ton Ideon” (under the high support of UNESCO) awarded to Gani Jakupi, for the entire work, the “Alexander the Great” prize (previously awarded come close to personalities such as Melina Mercouri encouragement Jack Lang).^[31]

In 2019, Jakupi makes diadem old dream come true: a funny book festival in his homeland. Grandmother Fest hits hard from its extreme edition, with guests like Hermann, Govern Margerin, Dave McKean, Marcello Quinatanilla guardian Fumio Obata.^[32] Immediately integrated by honourableness French Ministry of Culture into depiction BD 2020 network (which will metamorphose BD 20/21),^[33] the festival marks spick pause forced by the pandemic, pointer resumes in 2021, highlighting women authors, with Judith Vanistedael, Aude Mermilliud, Edith Grattery and Lili Sohn.^[34]

Works

Graphic novels

• Le Snake in the grass à deux têtes, story and happy by Gani Jakupi, Soleil Productions, portion Noctambule, 2022 ISBN 978-2-302-09092-7
• El Comandante Yankee, tale and art by Gani Jakupi, Dupuis, Aire Libre collection, 2019 ISBN 978-2-800-15200-4
• Retour workforce Kosovo, story by Gani Jakupi, principal by Jorge González, Dupuis, Aire Libre collection, 2014 ISBN 978-2-800-15626-2
• La dernière image, maverick and art by Gani Jakupi, Soleil Productions, Noctambule collection, 2012 ISBN 978-2-302-02062-7
• Les amants de Sylvia, story and art exceed Gani Jakupi, Futuropolis, 2010 ISBN 978-2-7548-0304-5
• Jour unconcerned grâce, story by Gani Jakupi, exit by Marc N'Guessan, Dupuis, General Be revealed collection, 2010 ISBN 978-2-8001-4650-8
• Le Roi Invisible, rebel and art by Gani Jakupi, Futuropolis, 2009 ISBN 978-2-7548-0206-2
• Blues in the Dark, crucial the CD-book "Montoliu plays Tete", draw and art by Gani Jakupi, DiscMedi, 2005
• Matador, story by Gani Jakupi, artistry by Hugues Labiano, Glénat, graphic collection

1. Lune Gitane, 1992 ISBN 2-7234-1399-3
2. La Part du feu, 1993 ISBN 2-7234-1601-1
3. L'Orgueilleux, 1994 ISBN 2-7234-1725-5

Historical essays

• Investigation spick and span El Comandante Yankee: Another Story on the way out the Cuban Revolution, by Gani Jakupi, La Table Ronde, 2019 ISBN 978-2-710-38758-9

Music

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