Italian Arianna Melone was crowned Sunday with the Artemisia Grand Prix for women's comics for
70s columnist
Gianna , the jury said on Monday.
Published in 2020 in its original version, and translated into French in 2021 by Albin Michel,
Gianna
recounts the struggles of a student from Bologna who, during the “
years of lead
”, revolted against the shackles of a conservative society.
Arianna Melone, born in 1996 in the Naples region, has also made a name for herself in France as the designer of a comic book adaptation of Victoria Mas' novel,
Le Bal des folles
.
Tribute to Simone de Beauvoir
Founded in 2007, the Artémisia association distinguishes in France every January 9, anniversary of the birth of the philosopher and writer Simone de Beauvoir, an album scripted and / or drawn by one or more women.
Behind this prize, the association explains on its site that it wants to reward an author and thus "
salute her work, encourage her, make the work of women in comics more visible, fight against passive discrimination, against the multiple glass ceilings that continue to limit the breakthrough of authors, designers, screenwriters, creators, their art, their creativity, their genius.
"
Read also Xavier Coste, comic book Fnac France Inter prize for his adaptation
of Orwell 's
1984
It distributes other prizes, including this year its “
special prize
” to the Finnish Emmi Valve for
La Grâce
(Çà et Là editions), an autobiographical story on depression, and its “
testimony prize
” to the cartoonist Coco for
Dessiner encore
( Les Arènes editions).
Last year, a Special Prize was awarded to Olga Lavrentieva for her book
Sorvilo
, which tells the story of the author's grandmother's youth in a Russia marked by the Second World War, political purges and poverty.
The Grand Prix was awarded to the Finnish Tiitu Takalo for
Moi, Mikko, Anikki
.
