René Goscinny
René Goscinny · Arts & Literature
Created Astérix (1959, with Uderzo) and wrote Lucky Luke, Iznogoud and Le Petit Nicolas — the most translated French author in the world at his death
14 August 1926, Paris, France — 5 November 1977, Paris, France
France · Argentina · United States
René Goscinny is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Created Astérix (1959, with Uderzo) and wrote Lucky Luke, Iznogoud and Le Petit Nicolas — the most translated French author in the world at his death
René Goscinny was born in Paris in 1926 to Jewish immigrants from Poland and grew up in Buenos Aires; much of the family that stayed in Europe was murdered in the Shoah. In New York he met the future founders of Mad; back in France he became the greatest comics writer of his century. With Albert Uderzo he created Astérix in 1959 — a village of the indomitable resisting an empire — wrote Lucky Luke's finest albums with Morris, Iznogoud with Tabary, and Le Petit Nicolas with Sempé.
He edited the journal Pilote and raised the whole craft of comics writing. When he died at fifty-one, he was the most translated French author in the world; Astérix has since passed 400 million albums.
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Created Astérix (1959, with Uderzo) and wrote Lucky Luke, Iznogoud and Le Petit Nicolas — the most translated French author in the world at his death
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Goscinny
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