Ulli Lust
Ulli Lust (born 1967) is an Austrian cartoonist who lives and works in Berlin. 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. In 2013, Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life won an Ignatz Award for best graphic novel, the LA Times Book Award for Graphic Novels and then in 2014 was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work.
Ulli Lust
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- Born
- 1967
- Birthplace
- Vienna, Austria
- Nationality
- Austrian
- Full name
- Ulrike.
- Fields
- commercial art.
- Honours
- prix Artemisia, Inkpot Award, Urhunden Prizes, German Non-Fiction Prize and Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for First Comic Book.
- Languages
- German.
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Ulli Lust (born 1967) is an Austrian cartoonist who lives and works in Berlin. 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. In 2013, Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life won an Ignatz Award for best graphic novel, the LA Times Book Award for Graphic Novels and then in 2014 was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work.
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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. 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.
The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is commercial art. Places of work recorded in the authority are Berlin and Hanover. Employment is recorded with Hochschule Hannover. Distinctions recorded are prix Artemisia, Inkpot Award, Urhunden Prizes and German Non-Fiction Prize.
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• Born — 1967 • Birthplace — Vienna, Austria • Cartoonist — y • Nationality — Austrian • Notable Works — Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life
Works
Works
• 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, Fantagraphics Books, 2013) • Voices in the Dark, New York Review Comics, 2017 • How I Tried to Be a Good Person, Fantagraphics Books, 2019 • Die Frau als Mensch: Am Anfang der Geschichte, 2025. (English translation, Early Man Was a Woman: Reclaiming Prehistory, The Experiment, 2026) • Die Frau als Mensch: Schamaninnen, 2026
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Ulli Lust is recorded as illustrator, publisher, university teacher, comics artist and comics writer. Recorded at birth as Ulrike.
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1967
Ulli Lust born at Vienna.
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- 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.
- 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. Comic "Flughunde" von Ulli Lust: Die Fratzen der Goebbelstöchter. Die Tageszeitung: Taz. 11 May 2013.
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Ulli Lust worked in commercial art. She was employed by Hochschule Hannover. She belonged to Austrian Association for Comics. She worked at Berlin and Hanover. Lust received prix Artemisia, Inkpot Award, Urhunden Prizes, German Non-Fiction Prize and Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for First Comic Book.
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