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Zusatztext 72450110 Informationen zum Autor ~ THE AUTHORS~ Mia Kirshner has worked as an actor in film and television; among her credits are Brian De Palma’s The Black Dahlia and The L Word. I Live Here is her first book. J.B. MacKinnon is the award-winning author of Dead Man in Paradise and Plenty. Michael Simons and Paul Shoebridge are award-winning creative directors, most notably for Adbusters magazine, who have conceptualized books, magazines, television spots, and major international advocacy campaigns. ~ CONTRIBUTORS~ Chris Abani is a professor at the University of California, Riverside, whose writing has earned honors including the PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award. His novels and poetry collections include Song For Night, GraceLand, and Hands Washing Water. Lynn Coady is a fiction writer and essayist; her most recent novels are Mean Boy and Saints of Big Harbour . Karen Comins is currently completing an illustrated journal of her life and natural history fieldwork in southern Africa. Karen Connelly is the author of seven books of bestselling nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, including The Lizard Cage and Dream of a Thousand Lives: A Sojourn in Thailand . Phoebe Gloeckner is an artist and assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Art and Design. Her works include The Diary of a Teenage Girl and A Child’s Life. Kamel Khélif is a French-Algerian writer and artist whose works include The Exiles and Homicide . Lauren Kirshner is the author of Fun and Other Stories of Home, to be published by McClelland & Stewart in spring 2009. Ann-Marie MacDonald is a writer and actor whose novels include the bestselling Fall On Your Knees and The Way the Crow Flies . Julie Morstad divides her time between drawing, illustration, animation, and design. Her recent works include When You Were Small (with Sara O’Leary). Joe Sacco is a renowned “cartoon journalist” whose works include But I Like It, Palestine, and Safe Area Gorazde. Also featuring artwork by Sean Campbell, Cissors, Tara Hach, Edward Kasinje, Lackson Manyawa, Niall McLelland, Tina Medina, Tiffany Monk, Georgie Russell, Seamrippers Craft Collective, Valerie Thai, and Felix Yakobe. Klappentext I Live Here is a paper documentary-an intimate journey to humanitarian crises in four corners of the world: war in Chechnya! ethnic cleansing in Burma! globalization in Mexico! and AIDS in Malawi. ~THE BOOK~ I Live Here is a visually stunning narrative — told through journals! stories! images! and graphic novellas — in which the lives of refugees and displaced people become at once personal and global. Bearing witness to stories that are too often overlooked! it is a raw and intimate journey to crises in four corners of the world: war in Chechnya! ethnic cleansing in Burma! globalization in Mexico! and AIDS in Malawi. The voices we encounter are those of displaced women and children! in their own words or in stories told in text and images by noted writers and artists. The stories unfold in an avalanche: An orphan goes to jail for stealing leftovers. A teenage girl falls in love in a city of disappeared women. A child soldier escapes his army only to be saved by the people he was taught to kill. Mia Kirshner's journals guide us through a unique paper documentary brought vividly to life in collaboration with J.B. MacKinnon! Paul Shoebridge! and Michael Simons! with featured works by Joe Sacco! Ann-Marie MacDonald! Phoebe Gloeckner! Chris Abani! Karen Connelly! Kamel Khelif! and many others. ~THE JOURNEYS ~
