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Graphic Literature

From “That Was Happiness”

By Blutch
Translated from French by Edward Gauvin
February 1, 2010
Published in (Worth) Ten Thousand Words, Part IV: International Graphic Novels
France

From C’était le bonheur. Published 2005 by Futuropolis. Copyright 2005 by Futuropolis. By arrangement with the publisher. Rights arranged through Nicolas Grivel for the Sylvain Coissard Agency, France. Translation copyright 2010 by Edward Gauvin. All rights reserved.

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Blutch

Christian Hincker, who uses the pseudonym Blutch,…

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Portrait of translator Edward Gauvin
Edward Gauvin

A 2021 Guggenheim fellow, Edward Gauvin has translated in various fields from film to fiction, with a personal focus on contemporary comics (BD) and post-Surrealist literatures of the fantastic.

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