B. Traven: Portrait of a Famous Unknown - Softcover

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Guy Nadaud, known as Golo, was born in Bayonne in 1948. He began his artistic career in 1973 as an illustrator for the music magazine Best. In the same year he visited Egypt for the first time, fell in love with Cairo, and has lived there for many years beginning in the 1990s. A prolific cartoonist and comic-book creator, Golo has contributed to many French and Egyptian periodicals, among them Hara-Kiri, Charlie Hebdo, Libération, Cairo Times, L'Association (Cairo), and Charlie Mensuel. In the 1980s his regular collaborator was the late Frank Reichert ("Frank"). His countless comic albums include adaptations of Albert Cossery, travelogues on Taiwan, and a two-volume graphic biography of the Romanian revolutionary vagabond Panaït Istrati.

Born in Manchester, England, Donald Nicholson-Smith is a longtime resident of New York City. He has translated many texts of the Situationist International, including Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle and Raoul Vaneigem's The Revolution of Everyday Life. PM Press has also published his translations of Anselm Jappe's intellectual biography Guy Debord and Vaneigem's Letter to My Children and the Children of the World to Come. Translations of poetry include Guillaume Apollinaire's Letters to Madeleine and the self-selected poems of the dissident Moroccan author Abdellatif Laâbi, In Praise of Defeat. Nicholson-Smith has also worked on noir fiction, notably several novels by Jean-Patrick Manchette for New York Review Books. And, among graphic works, Nicole Claveloux's The Green Hand and Yvan Alagbé's Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures.