Orbis Terrarvm [2008] [Completed]

Hosted by: B & b exlibris

“Orbis Terrarum,” because it means “the whole world” and that is what this is all about, reading books from all over.

Bold title indicates book read.

  1. Charles De Lint, representing, Cananda | A Dreaming Place.
    He was born in Bussum, the Netherlands, and emigrated to Canada at the age of four months. He now lives in Ottawa with his wife, artist and musician MaryAnn Harris.
  2. John Marsden, representing, Australia | Incurable.
    Born in Victoria, in 1950, the third of four children. He spent much of his childhood in rural Australia, moving first to Kyneton in Victoria, then to Devonport in Tasmania.
  3. Xinran, representing, China | Sky Burial.
    Xinran Xue is a British-Chinese journalist and broadcaster, born in Beijing (Beping) in 1958. Xue often uses her first name, Xinran, to identify herself as the author of work.
  4. Alessandro Baricco, Representing Italy | Silk
    Born January 25, 1958, in Turin, is a popular Italian writer, director and performer. His novels have been translated into a wide number of languages.
  5. Brian Selznick, representing, USA | The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
    Born 14 July 1966 in East Brunswick, New Jersey, Selznick, is an American author and illustrator of children’s books.
  6. Marjane Satrapi, representing, Iran | Persepolis
    Satrapi grew up in Tehran in a communist family which was involved with the communist and socialist movements in Iran, prior to the Islamic Iranian Revolution. She attended the Lycée Français there and witnessed, as a child, the growing oppression of civil liberties and the everyday-life consequences of Iranian politics, including the fall of the Shah, the early regime of Ruhollah Khomeini, and the first years of the Iran-Iraq war.
  7. Yoshihiro Tatsumi, representing Japan | Good-Bye
    Yoshihiro Tatsumi (辰巳 ヨシヒロ) is a mangaka who is widely credited with starting the gekiga style of alternative comics in Japan, having allegedly coined the term in 1957. Tatsumi was born in Osaka, Japan in 1935.
  8. Cyril Pedrosa, representing France | Three Shadows
    Cyril Pedrosa began his career in animation, working on the Disney films “Hunchback of Notre Dame” and “Hercules.” He has since become a rising star in a new kind of graphic storytelling, combining the influences of animation and the literary traditions of Borges, Garcia Marquez, and Tolkien to create a unique visual handwriting.
  9. Fredrick Peeters, representing Switzerland | Blue Pills
    (born August 14, 1974 in Geneva, Switzerland) is a contemporary graphic novelist. He received his degree in visual communication from the École Supérieure d’Arts Appliqués in Geneva in 1995.

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