★ Rights sold to Italy and Germany.
★ Adapted from Necropolis, the seminal concentration camp literature by Slovenian literary treasure Boris Pahor, hailed as one of the world’s most powerful testimonies of camp survival.
★ Young illustrator Jurij Devetak spent two years crafting this visual interpretation, capturing the essence of the original. Completed on the day of Pahor’s passing, it carries the author’s explicit endorsement—a cross-generational tribute to historical memory.
★ Eschewing graphic violence, it conveys the camp’s nihilism through atmospheric artistry, honoring victims with profound dignity!
Rights sold： Italy and Germany.

Necropolis is a graphic novel created by young Trieste-based artist Jurij Devetak. It adapts the acclaimed autobiographical novel by Boris Pahor, a pivotal figure in European culture. With his artistic language and masterful draftsmanship, Jurij fuses the narrative’s complexity into a hauntingly cohesive visual tapestry.

Translated globally and widely acclaimed, Necropolis stands among literature’s most searing accounts of camp existence. Its urgent warning against resurgent totalitarianism deeply resonated with Jurij Devetak (b. 1997), who compellingly translates the prose’s spirit into visual form.

The illustrator deliberately avoids literal depictions of camp atrocities. Accompanying text author Zdravko Duša summarizes the sketches: “Jurij Devetak follows the author’s narrative while plumbing the depths of camp nihilism, undertaking the mission to convey Pahor’s homage to the ‘humiliated bones.’”

Jurij Devetak
(b. 1997)He studied comics at the International School of Comics in Padua, Italy. He has illustrated for the newspaper Dnevnik and contributed cartoons to Primorski dnevnik. This young Slovenian artist from Trieste dedicated two years to adapting Pahor’s Necropolis into graphic novel form.
Devetak concluded his creative process on the very day in May when Boris Pahor—author of Necropolis and Slovenia’s most-translated writer—passed away. Pahor approved the project and witnessed its completion. Collaborating with Pahor remains Devetak’s profound honor.