108 Riddles from Tibet

original title 108 devinettes du Tibet
publisher L’Asiathèque 2020
project 130 illustrations as well as the  motifs for the title pages and drop caps (as well as graphic design and the creation of the cover and inner pages as graphic designer)
translations and texts Françoise Robin, linguist, Tibetan scholar, professor at the INALCO, and Véronique Gossot, translator and Tibetan scholar
technique India ink and watercolors
also see my work as graphic designer >>> agnesboulmer.com

 

The riddle game is an ancestral tradition: Tibetan children still play it in groups today. The authors Françoise Robin and Véronique Gossot took on the task of translating it for the first time in French and to transcribe the sound and rhythmic games, humor and poetry.