Jul Maroh

Jul Maroh (French: [maʁo]; born Julie Maroh^[1]) is a French writer and illustrator of graphic novels who wrote Blue Is the Warmest Color (Le bleu est une couleur chaude, "Blue Is a Warm Colour"), a story about the life and love of two young lesbians that was adapted by Abdelatif Kechiche into the film Blue Is the Warmest Colour.^[2][3]

Maroh originates from Northern France. After obtaining an applied arts baccalauréat at the École supérieure des arts appliqués et du textile [fr] (E.S.A.A.T.) in Roubaix, they continued studies in Brussels, where they lived for eight years. There, they received two diplomas: one in Visual Arts (comics option) at the École supérieure des arts Saint-Luc and the other in Lithography/Engraving at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts of Brussels.^[4]

Maroh is openly transgender and nonbinary.^[5] They started writing Blue is the Warmest Color when they were 19 and it took them five years to complete it.^{[citation needed]}

• Blue Is the Warmest Color^[6] (Le bleu est une couleur chaude), Arsenal Pulp Press, 2013 - ISBN 978-1551525143. The title was originally published by Glénat in 2010 and received a prize at 2011 Angoulême International Comics Festival.^[7] It has been adapted in film by Abdelatif Kechiche with the title Blue Is the Warmest Colour (Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.^[2]
• Skandalon (2013)
• Brahms (2015)
• Body Music (French: Corps sonores, 2017) ^[8]
• You Brought Me The Ocean (2020) ^[9]
• Hacker la peau, with Sabrina Calvo (2023)^[10]

• Sasson, Eric (2013-09-18). "The Cartoonist Behind Lesbian Love Story 'Blue Is the Warmest Color'". The Wall Street Journal.

• Angoulême 2011 - Interview de Julie Maroh, gagnante du Prix du public Fnac-Sncf on YouTube(in French)
• Maroh at Arsenal Pulp Press
• Blue Is the Warmest Color. Arsenal Pulp Press. Archived from the original on 2013-07-01. Retrieved 2013-06-24.