secrète des jeunes", recounting anecdotal observations of young people in public places. He likened the strip to a fly-on-the-wall nature documentary, and rendered the speech of his subjects with careful attention to sociolinguistic variation. The strips have been republished in three volumes, one in 2007, the second in 2010 and the last one in 2013. In late 2014, he left Charlie Hebdo and moved to Le Nouvel Obs, a weekly magazine, with a new strip called Les cahiers d'Esther (Esther's notebooks), based on true stories told to him by Esther A., a girl who was 9 years old when the strip started. Sattouf also experimented with film dubbing by giving his voice to a cartoon character in Petit Vampire designed by his friend, cartoonist Joann Sfar. Moving into filmmaking, he directed his first film entitled Les Beaux Gosses (also known by its English title The French Kissers). It was released on 10 June 2009 with great success in France and 1 million viewers in just 2 months. In it, Sattouf portrays the love life and coming of age of adolescence. The film was nominated for three César Awards in 2010: Best Debut Film, Best New Male Actor (for Vincent Lacoste in the role of Hervé) and Best Supporting Actress (for Noémie Lvovsky in her role as Hervé's mother). It won the Gold Prize for Best Film Debut, Best Male Revelation for Vincent Lacoste and Anthony Sonigo, Best French Revelation for Direction and Production for Sattouf himself and the Jacques Prévert Prize for Best Scenario and Best Adaptation with his co-writer Marc Syrigas. In 2018, Riad Sattouf disclosed a "family secret" about his father, the main character of L'Arabe du futur, being fiercely antisemitic and working in Saoudi Arabia, supporting the death penalty, pan-arabism, and the authoritarian Ba'ath movement of Hafez Al Assad. From November 24, 2018, to March 11, 2019, the Pompidou Center in Paris hosted a major retrospective of Sattouf's work, entitled L'écriture dessinée (or Illustrated Writing, in English). An accompanying exhibit catalogue of the same title was published by Allary Éditions. Prizes Cartoons In 2003: Angoulême International Comics Festival René Goscinny award for Les pauvres aventures de Jérémy, volume 1, Les jolis pieds de Florence. In 2007, Jacques Lob Prize for Pascal Brutal, volume 2, Le mâle dominant. In 2008, Globes de Cristal Award for best cartoon for La vie secrète des jeunes. In 2010, Angoulême International Comics