Enki Bilal

Enki Bilal, stage name of Enes Bilal, is a naturalized French cartoonist and screenwriter, born in Belgrade (former Yugoslavia) in 1951.
In 1973 he began drawing the “Exterminateur 17” series, with a story and screenplay by Jean-Pierre Dionnet in the Metal Hurlant magazine.
Since 1980 he has been working on what will later become one of his most important and well-known works, The Fair of the Immortals, the first volume of the Nikopol Trilogy for which he is the author of drawings and texts, which will be followed by The Woman Trap in 1986 and Cold Equator in 1992. He is also periodically interested in film directing, directing the films Bunker Palace Hotel in 1989, Tykho Moon in 1996 and, in 2004, Immortal Ad Vitam taken from the Nikopol Trilogy (in particular from Cold Equator), a film with which he won two prizes at the European Film Awards 2004.
In 1998 he published The Monster’s Sleep, the first volume of a new trilogy, which later became a tetralogy, published in France by Les Humanoïdes Associés and simultaneously in 12 other countries, including Japan. In 1999 Fayard published A Century of Love, written with Dan Franck and in 2000, based on texts by Pierre Christin, the illustrated volume Il Sarcofago was published by Dargaud.
In 2003 he published 32 December, the second volume of the monster tetralogy and, in 2006, the third volume, Appointment in Paris – Third Act, was published, followed in turn, in 2007, by Quattro?, the fourth and final volume, published in France by Casterman.
In 2008 the game Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals was adapted from the Nikopol trilogy.
In 2012 he published the book “Les Fantômes du Louvre” for the editions of the Louvre Museum, published in Italy the following year in which 22 works from the museum which he photographed, processed and printed on canvas were reproduced.

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