Zuflucht nehmen

In Zuflucht nehmen (2019–present, avant-verlag), writer Annika Wisniewski and Mathias Énard collaborate with artist Zeina Abirached on a single-issue reflection on the nature of sanctuary and displacement. This German graphic novel, published by avant-verlag, distills a poetic meditation on refuge into a concise visual narrative. Abirached’s distinctive linework and Énard’s literary sensibility combine to create a quiet, resonant work that explores borders and belonging through intimate, everyday moments. It matters as a compact, cross-disciplinary collaboration that brings together a celebrated French novelist and a Lebanese-born cartoonist to examine a universal human experience.