Sophie Yanow
{{Short description|Artist/graphic novelist from California}}
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| birth_name = Sophia Ondine Yanow
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| birth_place = Marin County, California
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| occupation = Artist, graphic novelist
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- Eisner Award for Best Webcomic (2019)
- Scott Moncrieff Prize (2019)
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| website = {{URL|https://www.sophieyanow.com/}}
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Sophia Ondine Yanow (born 1987) is an artist and graphic novelist from California.
Work
Sophie Yanow was born in Marin County, California on May 17, 1987.{{Cite web |url=https://www.californiabirthindex.org/birth/sophia_ondine_yanow_born_1987_18317194 |title=The Birth of Sophia Yanow |publisher=California Birth Index |access-date=2023-10-07}} In 2011 she moved to Montreal, Quebec for an artist residency at La Maison de la Bande Dessinée, where she became a member of the Colosse comics.{{cite web |title=Authors — Colosse |url=https://collectioncolosse.com/en/auteurs/ |website=collectioncolosse.com |access-date=18 March 2021}} With Colosse she published a collection of journal comics recording her transition to Montreal under the title In Situ, a nod to site-specificity in her creative process.{{cite web |title=Sophie Yanow — Colosse |url=https://collectioncolosse.com/en/auteurs/yanow_so/ |website=collectioncolosse.com |access-date=18 March 2021}}
In Montreal she has also participated in projects such as the 48 Heures de la Bande Dessinée, the strike-related online Manif de Bonhommes, and La Hausse en Question strike zine. Her work has also appeared online in places like Top Shelf Comix and The Rumpus.
Her 2020 comic The Contradictions (Drawn & Quarterly, Montreal) is a fictionalized account of studying abroad in Paris;{{Cite web |last=Cooke |first=Rachel |date=12 October 2020 |title=The Contradictions by Sophie Yanow review – on the road with a raging bore |url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/12/the-contradictions-by-sophie-yanow-review-on-the-road-with-a-raging-bore |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220104075949/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/12/the-contradictions-by-sophie-yanow-review-on-the-road-with-a-raging-bore |archive-date=4 January 2022 |access-date=18 March 2021 |website=The Guardian |language=en}} the work was described as "a masterpiece" by Alison Bechdel.{{Cite web|title=The Contradictions|url=https://www.thecontradictions.com/|access-date=2021-03-18|website=The Contradictions|language=en-US}}
In 2019, she won the Eisner Award for Best Webcomic{{Cite web|date=2012-12-02|title=2010-Present|url=https://www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-award-recipients-2010-present|access-date=2021-03-18|website=Comic-Con International: San Diego|language=en}} for The Contradictions and a Scott Moncrieff Prize for her translation of Pretending Is Lying by Dominique Goblet.{{Cite web|title=Translation Prizes |publisher=The Society of Authors|url=https://www.societyofauthors.org/Prizes/Translation-Prizes/Scott-Moncrieff/Past-winners|access-date=2021-04-06|date=8 May 2020 }}
Books
- War of Streets and Houses (2013)
- What Is a Glacier? (2017)
- The Contradictions (2020)
References
External links
- {{Official website|https://www.sophieyanow.com/}}
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Category:American graphic novelists
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