So You Haven't Read Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi? This comic is about growing up in Iran during the tumultuous 1980s and the ...

Press release Celebrate spring and plan for summer with the library. We’re excited to announce our summer reading program, Color Our World, June 16–August 1. Readers 0-17 will be able to earn stickers ...

The Smartest Kid on Earth”) and Marjane Satrapi (“Persepolis”) to Cemex auditorium to talk about the nature of the graphic novel, as well as their writing processes. Ware and Satrapi have ...

PARIS – French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the graphic novels Persepolis (2000 to 2003) and the 2007 film adaptation, has refused France’s Legion d’Honneur ...

PARIS: French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the book and film “Persopolis”, has refused the French legion d’honneur over the country’s “hypocrisy” in ...

Satrapi is an outspoken critic of Iran's Islamic regime — BERTRAND GUAY French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the book and film "Persopolis", has refused the French ...

Marjane Satrapi’s blockbuster autobiographical graphic novels Persepolis One and Two took the world by storm for their fearless – and irreverent – portrayal of Islamic rule in her motherland ...

Satrapi, best known for her graphic memoirs Persepolis, is among the forerunners of the genre from Iran. Having used the medium as a tool for social mobilisation before, she returns to it with ...

It’s been more than two decades since Marjane Satrapi’s graphic memoir, Persepolis (2000), took us behind the scenes of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran. Through the everyday life of a ...

Born in Iran, Satrapi recounts in "Persepolis" her years as an outspoken teenager chafing at the Islamic revolution and its restrictions imposed on women, especially for one from a progressive ...