Juman Malouf is a Lebanese writer, illustrator, costume designer, and voice actress who is also the longtime partner of American director, producer and writer Wes Anderson. She started her career designing theatre sets around New York, but soon launched her own fashion label, Charlotte Corday. However, she was dissatisfied with both and finally found her true calling when she began writing. The daughter of celebrated Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh, she wrote and illustrated her debut children’s fantasy book, The Trilogy of Two, released in 2015. She has credited her illiterate grandmother for influencing her storytelling and her mother for her fashion sense and writing style. She has contributed regularly to her partner’s movies by providing voice over to Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), designing book covers for Moonrise Kingdom (2012) and creating character illustrations for his Oscar-nominated film The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). She and her husband debuted as curators at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria in November 2018, showcasing over 400 objects for the months-long exhibition, “Spitzmaus Mummy in a Coffin and other Treasures”.
