It honors Ward’s influence in the development of the graphic novel and celebrates the gift of an extensive collection of Ward’s wood engravings, original book illustrations and other graphic art donated to Penn State University Libraries by his daughters Robin Ward Savage and Nanda Weedon Ward. The Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize is presented annually to the best graphic novel, fiction or nonfiction, published in the previous calendar year by a living U.S. This graphic memoir feels part diary, part archival record, and the outcome is both personal and educational - about German identity - and about the collective cultural aftermath of the Holocaust.” The result is rich storytelling that winnows a human connection out of loss and reckoning. Employing collage in tandem with her personal illustration style, she negotiates historical space with her own artistic vision. Her language is poetic, and her assemblage of fading photographs, letters, and vibrant illustrations evoke a palimpsest of history and memory. “The graphic memoir follows Nora as she uncovers her family’s participation in World War II, and the impact the War continues to have on the generations that follow. “Nora Krug’s ‘Belonging’ is an examination of culpability,” the 2019 Lynd Ward Prize jury said.
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