Jacques Ferrandez
Birth date: December 12, 1955
Jacques Ferrandez's Books
This must be one of the most ambitious bande-dessinée projects of the 80s and 90s – an attempt to tell the whole story of French Algeria from colonisation in 1830 right up to the eve of the war of independence. The author, Jacques Ferrandez – himself a pied noir from Algiers – spent nine years work...
It occurred to me that Tonino Benacquista is a bit like a French version of Iain Banks. Great storyteller, brilliant at cooking up tastefully intriguing mixtures of sex and violence with a psychological twist. Often the story is told in an odd order, or with many flashbacks. And they both like to cr...
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