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created on: 30/05/2016
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Brecht Evens (born 1986 in Hasselt, Belgium) is a Belgian painter and graphic novel artist.
He graduted from Sint-Lucas Fine Arts in Ghent in 2008 with a specialization in Illustration.
At the age of 18 he saw his comic A Message From Space (Een Boodschap Uit De Ruimte) being published after winning a comic competion.
One year later Vincent was published followed by Night Animals (Nachtdieren) two years later.
2009 saw his breakthrough when winning the first Willy Vandersteen prize and when nominated for a Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for "The Wrong Place" (Original Dutch title: Ergens Waar Je Niet Wil Zijn).
In 2011 "The Making Of" (Original Dutch title: De Liefhebbers) was published, followed by Panther in 2014.
2016 saw the release of the Louis Vuitton Travel Book Paris, a book containing 100 paintings of Paris, the personal impressions of a 18 months stay in Paris commisioned by Louis Vuitton. The Travel Books Collections is published every year featuring works of renowned and promising artists, exploring cities and travel destinations unknown to them.
In 2018 his mural Jardin aux fleurs was installed in Brussels as a public artwork.
In 2021 his awarded comic Les Rigoles was released in English (The City of Belgium, Drawn&Quarterly).

Evens's work has won him several awards in the comics industry, including the Prix de L’Audace at the Angoulême International Comics Festival for "The Wrong Place" in 2011 (also nominated for an Eisner Award) and the Special Jury Prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival for The Amusement in 2019.

He is living in Paris since 2013.
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