After developing his acclaimed style of firsthand reporting with his bestselling graphic novels "Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea" and "Shenzen: A Travelogue from China", Guy Delisle is back with "Burma Chronicles". In this country notorious for its use of concealment and isolation as social control - where scissors-wielding censors monitor the papers, the de facto leader of the opposition has been under decade-long house arrest, insurgent-controlled regions are effectively cut off from the world, and rumour is the most reliable source of current information - he turns his gaze to the everyday for a sense of the bigger picture. Delisle's deft and recognisable renderings take note of almsgiving rituals, daylong power-cuts and rampant heroin use in outlying regions, in this place where catastrophic mismanagement and ironhanded rule come up against profound resilience of spirit, expatriate life ambles along, and non-governmental organisations struggle with the risk of co-option by the military junta. "Burma Chronicles" is drawn with a minimal line, and interspersed with wordless vignettes and moments of Delisle's distinctive slapstick humour.

法國安古蘭國際漫畫節最佳漫畫金獸獎得主

1966年生於加拿大魁北克省。畢業於多倫多雪略登動畫學院。結束雪略登動畫學院的學業後,曾於加拿大、德國、法國、中國、北朝鮮等地的動畫製作公司工作。由於妻子於無國界醫師組織擔任行政,他與妻子及兩名小孩經常遊走世界,拜訪過軍政府統治的緬甸、煙硝未散的耶路薩冷……等地。

1999年首部作品《艾琳與她們的故事》（Aline et les autres）獲《The Comics Journal》選為當年歐洲漫畫五本重要作品之一。展現犀利幽默的風格。後因自身遊歷世界的獨特經驗,開始創作半自傳體的旅行報導作品。2001年發表《深圳初體驗》(Shenzhen)；2003年出版《平壤小確幸》(Pyongyang)；2011年發表的《耶路薩冷微感受》（Chroniques de Jérusalem）更奪得法國安古蘭國際漫畫節最佳漫畫金獸獎。

他曾經這樣解釋自己的作品：「我的遊記多半是以小故事串連而成,當我旅行時,名勝古蹟並不是我唯一感興趣的,人與人之間的萍水相逢更彌足珍貴。」

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