Marzena Sowa
Illustration — Marzena Sowa with a Polish copy of her autobiographical comics, Marzi. Marzena Sowa (born 1979 in Stalowa Wola) is a Polish cartoonist. Since 2001, she has been living in France.
Marzena Sowa
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- Born
- 1979 · Stalowa Wola.
- Nationality
- Poland
- Occupation
- translator · writer · cartoonist
- Fields
- translation · comic
- Education
- Bordeaux Montaigne University · Jagiellonian University
- Known for
- Morocco
- Honours
- prix Jacques-Lob
- Languages
- French · Polish
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Marzena Sowa is recorded as translator, writer and cartoonist. Career and activity. Sowa worked in translation and comic. She belonged to Collectif des créatrices de bande dessinée contre le sexisme.
Rencontre Sowa Savoia à la médiathèque Falala.
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rencontre avec Marzena Sowa et Sylvain Savoia à la bibliothqèue Falala.
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Life and career
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Life and career
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1979
Marzena Sowa born at Stalowa Wola.
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Sowa studied at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and then at the Michel de Montaigne University Bordeaux 3 in Bordeaux. Sowa is the author of the autobiographical comic Marzi, a series of comics about her childhood in 1980s-era Poland. She writes about life under communism, food shortages, and her childish escapades. The illustrator is Sylvain Savoia, Sowa's life partner. So far, six volumes of Marzi have been published by comic book publisher Dupuis. In Poland, the first three volumes were collected and published by Egmont. Marzi is also translated into Spanish, in 2011 into English and in 2012 into Czech.
Marzena Sowa studied at Bordeaux Montaigne University and Jagiellonian University. The recorded working language is French and Polish. The field of work recorded is translation and comic. Works named in the authority record are Morocco. Distinctions recorded are prix Jacques-Lob.
• Marzi: • Petite Carpe, vol. 1, Dupuis, 2005 • Sur la terre comme au ciel, vol. 2, Dupuis, 2006 • Rezystor, vol. 3, Dupuis, 2007 • Le Bruit des villes, vol. 4, Dupuis, 2008 (tirage de tête, Éditions de la Gouttière, 2008) • Pas de liberté sans solidarité, vol. 5, Dupuis, 2009 • Tout va mieux..., vol. 6, Dupuis, 2011 • Nouvelle vague, vol.7, Dupuis, 2017 • La Pologne vue par les yeux d'une enfant (complete volume 1), Dupuis, 2008 • Une enfant en Pologne (complete volume 2), Dupuis, 2009 • Nouveau souffle (complete volume 3), Dupuis, 2017
Documentary record
Marzena Sowa, recorded as a “Cartoonistin”, was born on 8 April 1979 in Stalowa Wola. The birth is recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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- 1.Yasmine Chouaki. → En sol majeur > Marzena Sowa. RFI. 2015-3-18.
- 2.Savoia : “Avec Marzi, j’avais envie de raconter autre chose que le matérialisme qui règne en France.”. Actua BD. 2005-6-11.
- 3.Nicolas Anspach. Marzi - T1 : Petite Carpe - par Marzena Sowa & Sylvain Savoia - Dupuis (Expresso). Actua BD. 15 juin 2005.
- 4.Mélanie Monroy. N’embrassez pas qui vous voulez. BoDoï. 12 décembre 2012.
- 5.Laurence Le Saux. La bédéthèque idéale #61 : la sombre histoire de la Pologne, par Marzena Sowa et Gawron. Télérama. 04/09/2014.
- 6.Françoise Dargent. Histoire de poireaux. Le Figaro. 26/05/2015.
- 7.Benjamin Roure. BD pour enfants : le singe, le moineau et la mouche, ou la chouette multiplication des fables. Télérama. 01/06/2020.
- 8.Liste des lauréats de 1971 à 2017. prixsaintmichel.be.
- 9.Prix 2015. Maison de la BD. novembre 2015.
- 10.Prix des libraires du Québec Catégorie Jeunesse – Sélection 2021. prixdeslibraires.qc.ca.
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