Chloé Wary
# Chloé Wary

Chloé Wary (suburbs of Paris, 1995) is a French bande dessinée author. In 2020, she was the recipient of the Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize Awarded by the Audience.

## Early life and education

Chloé Wary was born in 1995, and grew up in Chilly-Mazarin. She studied illustration at the Lycée technologique d'Arts appliqués Auguste Renoir, in Paris. She developed a graduation project on women's rights in Saudi Arabia, including the right to drive a vehicle, which was published by Steinkis Groupe in 2017 under the title Conduite interdite (Prohibited Conduct). Wary declared having had the idea for this work by reading a book of testimonies, Révolution sous le voile (Revolution under the veil), by Clarence Rodriguez [fr].

In 2018, Wary was an artist-in-residence at Mazé-Milon and prepared a comic strip on Women's association football there; she herself became a gamer to better immerse herself in the subject. The work narrates the struggle of a female team for its survival. At the 2020 Angoulême International Comics Festival, the album won the Audience award.

Following an order from Insula Orchestra [fr] to the Steinkis publishing house, Wary illustrated a leaflet on the composer Louise Farrenc (1804-1875). This first encounter with classical music led to the production of her third album, Beethov sur Seine.

## Awards and honours

* 2020:
   * Literary prize for high school students and apprentices in the South region: winner of Comic strips for Saison des roses
   * Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize Awarded by the Audience for Saison des roses
   * Prix Artémisia for Emancipation for Saison des roses.
   * Nomination for the 2019 Prix Bédélys in the category of best comics outside Quebec in French language for Saison des roses.

## Selected works

* Conduite interdite11, Steinkis, March 2017 (ISBN 978-2-368-46090-0)
* Saison des roses, FLBLB, May 2019 (ISBN 978-2-357-61176-4)
* Beethov sur Seine, Steinkis, November 2020 (ISBN 978-2-36846-360-4)
