But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust (New Jewish Press) has gained two Professional & Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) class awards from the Association of American Publishers (AAP) – for Non-Fiction Graphic Novels, and Biography & Autobiography.
The Charlotte Schallié-edited anthology which paired three Holocaust survivors’ testimonies with graphic novelists Miriam Libicki, Gilad Seliktar, and Barbara Yelin, has already earned a major quantity of reward since its launch in May 2022. In October 2022, But I Live acquired a Canadian Jewish Literary Award (Biography).
In a press launch, Manager of AAP Member Programs Emily Bokelman stated:
“The 2023 PROSE Award entries considered by our judges illustrate the wide breadth of excellence, diversity, and merit in scholarly works published today, in all areas of academic study. Our 25-judge panel evaluated this year’s entries to select 105 titles as finalists, further naming 40 exceptional titles to be honored as Category Winners.”
The PROSE awards have been energetic since 1976 and are predominantly geared toward tutorial works within the sciences and humanities. But I Live was seemingly the one comedian to make it get important PROSE awards consideration this 12 months – since there have been no finalists listed within the Nonfiction Graphic Novels class, and the opposite Biography finalists weren’t comics.
The synopsis of the e-book:
“An intimate co-creation of three graphic novelists and 4 Holocaust survivors, But I Live consists of three illustrated tales based mostly on the experiences of every survivor throughout and after the Holocaust.
“David Schaffer and his household survived in Romania on account of their refusal to obey Nazi collaborators. In the Netherlands, brothers Nico and Rolf Kamp have been separated from their mother and father and hidden by the Dutch resistance in 13 completely different locations. Through the story of Emmie Arbel, a toddler survivor of the Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen focus camps, we see the lifelong trauma inflicted by the Holocaust.
“To complement these hauntingly lovely and unforgettable visible tales, But I Live contains historic essays, an illustrated postscript from the artists, and private phrases from every of the survivors.
“As we urgently approach the post-witness era without living survivors of the Holocaust, these illustrated stories act as a physical embodiment of memory and help to create a new archive for future readers. By turning these testimonies into graphic novels, But I Live aims to teach new generations about racism, antisemitism, human rights, and social justice.”
Discussion about this post