The English translation of the now classic memoir Persepolis by comics artist, painter and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi turned 20 ... She, her family and others around them struggle to adjust to ...

Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis was an ... Satrapi was born in 1969 into a secular socialist family. Her outspokenness as a teenager led her parents to send her to high school in ...

Marjane Satrapi’s blockbuster autobiographical graphic ... the brutal regime of the Shah and her family’s resistance to it, and their subsequent migration to Europe. Satrapi holds French ...

Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed memoir-in-comic-strips. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in ...

In her autobiographical film, 'Persepolis', Marjane Satrapi draws an intimate portrait of a turbulent family and national history with plenty of heart and humour. “Freedom always comes at a ...

The Iranian-French author Marjane Satrapi has declined France's Legion ... known to friends and family as Jina, in police custody in Iran in 2022. She had been arrested for not wearing her ...

Harris Marjane Satrapi, whose graphic novel series ... has said she died because of underlying health issues, but her family said that she had none, and that she died because she was beaten ...

This now iconic graphic memoir of growing up in Iran by French-Iranian writer and cartoonist Marjane ... in comparison. Satrapi’s neighbours and members of her extended family fall victim ...

She, her family and others around them struggle to ... been happening to the adults in her life. From Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. "I take the book's banning as a huge compliment," writes ...