Introduction
Pénélope Bagieu, a French bande dessinée author and illustrator and a juror for the International Competition, will speak about creativity.
Speaker
Speaker：Pénélope Bagieu
"Born in 1982 in Paris to Corsican and Basque parents, Pénélope Bagieu studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, where she specialized in multimedia and animation. After graduating, she began working as an illustrator on major advertising campaigns, book covers, and press publications. Her blog, 'Ma vie est tout à fait fascinante', in which she humorously and sharply portrays her daily life, became a publishing success after its online popularity. Her work, translated into many languages, has received numerous awards and accolades: the SNCF Prize at the Angoulême Festival and the BD Award for Best Humour Album in 2011 for Cadavre Exquis, the Harvey Award for Best European Book in 2018 for California Dreamin, the Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material in 2019 for her two-volume Brazen, which has been translated into twenty languages, the Babelio Comics Prize in 2020, and the Quebec Booksellers’ Youth Comics Prize in 2021 for her adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Witches. Her success has been phenomenal. The first two volumes of her Joséphine trilogy were adapted into films in 2013 and 2016, starring Marilou Berry in the lead role, and Brazen was adapted into an animated TV series in 2020. Pénélope Bagieu was named a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2013."