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Ulli Lust
Ulli Lust in 2010
Born1967 (age 56–57)
Vienna, Austria
NationalityAustrian
Area(s)Cartoonist
Notable works
Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life

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

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[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  1. ^ "Flughunde. Buch von Ulli Lust, Marcel Beyer (Suhrkamp Verlag)". 14 April 2013.
  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. ^ "Fantagraphics | Publisher of the World's Greatest Cartoonists".
  4. ^ Los Angeles Times
  5. ^ "The 2014 Eisner Award Winners". 26 July 2014.
  6. ^ Lüthge, Katja (11 May 2013). "Comic "Flughunde" von Ulli Lust: Die Fratzen der Goebbelstöchter". Die Tageszeitung: Taz.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulli_Lust

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