Simon Lamouret is a French comic book author and illustrator. A graduate of the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg and the École Européenne Supérieure de l’Image in Angoulême, his work explores the boundaries between nonfiction and fiction.
He has lived and taught in Bangalore, India from 2013 to 2017, an experience that shaped his graphic novels Bangalore (2017); L’Alcazar (2020); and The Mirror Man (2024), all published by Sarbacane in France and translated into several languages. He has received many awards, including the ADAGP Revelation Prize at Quai des Bulles (2021); his work has been exhibited in France, India, Morocco, and Switzerland. In 2024 he was a resident at Rachna Books in Gangtok as part of the Villa Swagatam programme, held by the French Institute in India.
Sikkim Stories,co-authored with Pema Wangchuk Dorjee, is set amid the high-altitude landscapes of Sikkim, and is represented by A Suitable Agency. Sikkim Stories explores the encounter between three people whose paths would otherwise never have crossed. Sangay, a nomadic yak herder from the northern mountains, Pema, a Delhi-based botanist returning to the land of her origins and Jaspreet, a young soldier from the plains of Punjab. Each is travelling with a purpose. Each carries a different relationship to the territory. Fate gathers them for a single night, suspended on the eve of disaster.
The book showcases the difficulty of inhabiting a world with an increasingly fragile environment shaken by climate change, rapid urbanisation and the disappearance of old ways of life.