Jiro Taniguchi
1947
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2017
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
genre: gekiga
country of citizenship: Japan
languages spoken, written or signed: Japanese
occupation: mangaka, comics artist
award received: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, Best foreign work published in Spain, Shogakukan Manga Award, Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize
influenced by: Hiroshi Hirata, Takao Saito
Jiro Taniguchi (谷口 ジロー, Taniguchi Jirō, 14 August 1947 – 11 February 2017) was a Japanese manga writer/artist. His works belong to the gekiga, or "dramatic pictures", genre of manga. In France he was knighted a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2011. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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