Édith Zha (born 1945) is a French author and scriptwriter of comics for adults and children.

Biography

Édith Zha was born in 1945. She studied philosophy. At the beginning of 1978, Edith Zha met

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and they began to collect interviews with workers who loved each other. In 1979, they published ''Les femmes et l'amour homosexuel'' (Women and Homosexual Love). She then became a proofreader in a publishing house. At the same time, she wrote scripts for adult and children's comics, illustrated by Nicole Claveloux. She also writes stories for children.

Works

* ''Les Femmes et l'amour homosexuel'', with

, Hachette, 1979 * ''Morte-saison et autres récits'' (Dead Season and Other Stories), with Nicole Claveloux and Elisabeth Salomon. * ''La maison sur la digue'' with Nicole Claveloux * ''La Main Verte et autres récits'' (The Green Hand and Other Stories) with Nicole Claveloux. translated into English by

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Awards

Angoulême International Comics Festival The Angoulême International Comics Festival (AICF; ) is the second largest comics festival in Europe after the Lucca Comics & Games in Italy, and the third biggest in the world after Lucca Comics & Games and the Comiket of Japan. It has occur ...

2020: Prize for Inheritance with Nicole Claveloux * Prix Artémisia 2020 du Matrimoine with Nicole Claveloux “for the magnificent republication of their works, ''La Main Verte et autres récits'', published by Cornélius.”

References

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