Ulli Lust, born in 1967, emigrated from Vienna to Berlin in 1995. Since then, she has been creating comic reportages with sharp observations about modern everyday life. In 2009, she published “Heute ist der letzte Tag vom Rest Deines Lebens” (Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life) (avant-verlag), an extensive comic about her youth that blends travel and picaresque novel elements with existential teenage drama. The book has been translated into numerous languages and has won several awards, including the Prix de Revelation at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, the Ignatz Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award in the USA. Her autobiographical graphic novel about an unusual three-way relationship, “Wie ich versuchte ein guter Mensch zu sein” (How I Tried to Be a Good Person) (Suhrkamp, 2017), was shortlisted for the “Fauve d’or” in Angoulême in 2018 and won an Ink Pot Award at the San Diego Comic-Con. Since 2013, Ulli Lust has been a professor of illustrative design and comics at Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts.

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