Aurélia Aurita is the pseudonym of the French bande dessinée (comic book) album author, Hakchenda Khun (first name often shortened to Chenda; born 1980).
Her second album, Fraise et Chocolat (2006),[5] is an erotic and autobiographical story about her romantic relationship with Frédéric Boilet,[6] who also a comic book author.
The next year, Aurita published Ma vie est un best-seller (My life is a bestseller) with Casterman, based on a screenplay by Corinne Maier, in which the latter recounts the media coverage and success of her book Bonjour paresse (Hello laziness).
In 2018, still with Casterman, Aurita illustrated Comme un chef (Like a boss),[10] based on an autobiographical screenplay by Benoît Peeters, who recounts his passion for cooking at the time he was studying semiotics with Roland Barthes.
She explains that,—[11] Je me suis raccrochée à la nourriture, parce que c'est le plaisir le plus accessible et immédiat lorsqu'on est affaibli par les traitements", mais aussi "la maladie rappelle qu'on a un corps, qu'on est mortel.