Xavier DelaporteXavier Delaporte

Xavier Delaporte was born in 1967 and lives in Savoy. His first graphic novel, Chaabi, with text by Richard Marazano, was published by Futuropolis in 2007.

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Richard MarazanoRichard Marazano

Richard Marazano was born in 1971. He lives in the suburbs of Paris. He studied physics and astrophysics before launching his writing career. His books include Zéro absolu drawn by Christophe Bec (3 volumes, Soleil, 1997)); 2000: Dusk, drawn by Christian de Metter (Les Humanoïdes Associés, 2000); Le Bataillon des lâches (Editions Carabas, 2000); the first volume of Cuervos, drawn by Michel Durand (Glénat, 2003). He received the prize for the best scenario at the Angouleme Festival in 2004 and the prize for the best cartoon adapted for the cinema at the Cinema and Literature Festival in Monaco in 2006. In 2007 he published Genetiks, drawn by Jean-Michel Ponzio (Futuropolis); Le complexe du chimpanzé, also drawn by Jean-Michel Ponzio (Dargaud); and Chaabi, drawn by Xavier Delaporte (Futuropolis).

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The winner of the John Dryden Translation prize, Edward Gauvin (edwardgauvin.com/blog) has received fellowships and residencies from the NEA, the Fulbright Foundation, the Centre National du Livre, and the American Literary Translators' Association. His volume of Georges-Olivier Chāteaureynaud’s selected stories, A Life on Paper (Small Beer, 2010), won the Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Award and was shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award. Other publications have appeared in Tin House, Subtropics, The Harvard Review, The Southern Review, AGNI Online, and PEN America. He translates comics for Top Shelf, Archaia, and Lerner.

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