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Riad Sattouf
Memoir & Personal Growth
French cartoonist and film director best known for the graphic memoir L'Arabe du futur and the film Les Beaux Gosses; contributed to Charlie Hebdo.
Biography
Riad Sattouf (Arabic: رياض سطوف; born 5 May 1978) is a French cartoonist, comic artist, and film director. He is best known for his graphic memoir L'Arabe du futur (The Arab of the Future) and for directing the film Les Beaux Gosses (The French Kissers). Sattouf’s work spans comics and cinema and has attracted international attention.
From 2004 to mid-2014 he worked for the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, where he published drawing boards of one of his major works, La vie secrète des jeunes. His graphic memoirs recount his childhood and family life across France and the Middle East, and his published output blends personal narrative with social and political observation.
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Books by Riad Sattouf
L'Arabe du futur, tome 2
Volume 2 of L'Arabe du futur continues Sattouf’s graphic memoir of his early childhood between France and the Middle East, following his settled years in his father’s hometown of Horms under Hafez Al-Assad and depicting school cruelty, the black market, family strains, and a chilling act that leads the family to a dramatic change.