Aya abouet7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() It is also her first venture into graphic novels, as well as a collaborative effort with her husband, for whom Aya was his first illustrating job in graphic novels. She left her job as a legal *istant to concentrate on writing full-time, including her two follow-up graphic novels to Aya ( Aya of Yop City and Aya: The Secrets Come Out). ![]() Abouet had tried to write novels for young people, but she gave up in frustration with what she perceived to be the constraints put on the genre by the publishers. She worked as a legal *istant in Paris while writing her first graphic novel, Aya. She currently lives in Romainville, a suburb of Paris, with her husband, illustrator Clément Oubrerie (who illustrates her graphic concepts), and their young son. BiographyĪbouet was born in 1971 in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, and at the age of 12 she and her brother moved to France to their great uncle. Marguerite Abouet (born 1971) is an Ivorian writer of bandes dessinées, best known for her graphic novel series Aya. ![]()
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