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Copi (Author) Born in Buenos Aires in 1939, Raol Damonte Botana derived his sobriquet COPI from a nickname his grandmother gave him, \""copita de nieve,\"" or \""little snowflake.\"" At 17, he went into exile in Haiti, Uruguay, and New York before finally settling in Paris, where he was a cartoonist, performer, playwright, and novelist. Copi co-founded the Panic movement with Alejandro Jodorowski and wrote a nationally syndicated comic strip. He died of an AIDS-related illness in 1987. Kit Schluter (Translator) Kit Schluter is the author of Cartoons and has recently translated books from the French and Spanish by Copi, bruno dario, Rafael Bernal, Mario Levrero, Marcel Schwob, Olivia Tapiero, and Enrique Vila-Matas. He lives in Mexico City.
The greatest miniaturist of our age… Copi was a man of the Baroque, a Shakespeare, magically reincarnated in gay Paris -- Cesar Aira Copi is the sassiest, most decadent, poised, unpredictable, violent, galling, and marvellous of any author in the past quarter century * Charlie Hebdo *
