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Ulli Lust

Ulli Lust

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Ulli Lust (born 1967 in Vienna) is an Austrian cartoonist who lives and works in Berlin.[1]

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Her graphic novel Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life was translated into English and published by Fantagraphics Books in 2013.[2] In 2013, Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life won an Ignatz Award for best graphic novel,[3] the LA Times Book Award for Graphic Novels[4] and then in 2014 was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work.[5] In 2013, Lust also published an adaptation of Marcel Beyer's 1995 novel, Flughunde, which presents a fictional account of Helga Goebbels, the daughter of German World War II minister of propaganda Joseph Goebbels.[6] This was published in English as Voices in the Dark.

Many of the books of Lust are published in German, Dutch, French, Swedish, Italian, Spanish and English. She holds a professorship at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hannover, Germany, and holds lectures and workshops internationally and on digital channels.

Works

  • Fashionvictims, Trendverächter: Bildkolumnen und Minireportagen aus Berlin, Suhrkamp Verlag, 2008.
  • Heute ist der letzte Tag vom Rest deines Lebens, avant-verlag, 2009. (English translation, Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life, 2013, Fantagraphics Books)
  • Voices in the Dark, New York Review Comics, 2017
  • How I Tried to Be a Good Person, Fantagraphics Books, 2019

References

  1. [1]
    "Flughunde. Buch von Ulli Lust, Marcel Beyer (Suhrkamp Verlag)". 14 April 2013.
  2. [2]
    "Draw, Write, Love: Ulli Lust's Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life | The House Next Door | Slant Magazine". Slant Magazine. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02.
  3. [3]
    "Fantagraphics | Publisher of the World's Greatest Cartoonists".
  4. [4]
    Los Angeles Times
  5. [5]
    "The 2014 Eisner Award Winners". 26 July 2014.
  6. [6]
    Lüthge, Katja (11 May 2013). "Comic "Flughunde" von Ulli Lust: Die Fratzen der Goebbelstöchter". Die Tageszeitung: Taz.
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