This is the consecration for Marcello Quintanilha. For Listen, pretty Márciathe Brazilian author won the prize for the best album of the year, the Fauve d’or, Angouleme Festival. Published in September by Éditions Çà et Là, this graphic novel tells the dilemmas of a mother living in a favela near Rio, whose daughter falls into gang violence.
Son of a professional footballer, Marcello Quintanilha, born in 1971, left the Brazil 20 years ago for Barcelona, Spain. He had already won the 2016 polar prize in Angoulême for Tungsten.
The Grand Prize for Julie Doucet
The Éco-Fauve Raja prize, a subject of controversy after the resignation of a first jury protesting against the sponsorship of a packaging manufacturer, was awarded to Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny and Christian Quesnel for Mégantic, a train in the night (Écosociété editions), the story of an industrial disaster in Québec in 2013. The most prestigious award, the Grand Prix, was awarded Wednesday to Julie Doucet, the first Canadian and fourth woman to put her name on this list, which crowns a body of work.
The Angoulême Festival closes its doors this Sunday evening, after welcoming fewer authors this year because of its postponement to an unusual date. The gray and cold weather of the first two days, Thursday and Friday, as well as the busy news between the war in Ukraine and the presidential campaign, did not help the attendance figures either. However, comics have never done so well in France. In 2021 (the year in which an Asterix album was released), according to the firm Xerfi, its growth reached 34%. And according to GfK, it represents 24% of the book market, just behind general literature (25%).