Marjane Satrapi

Marjane Satrapi (born in 1969 in Rasht, Iran) is a contemporary graphic novelist and illustrator. She grew up in Tehran in a progressive family. She attended the Lycée Français there and witnessed, as a child, the growing oppression of civil liberties and the everyday life consequences of Iranian politics, including the fall of the Shah, the early regime of Ayatollah Khomeini and the first years of the Iran-Iraq war.

In 1983, at the age of 14, Satrapi was sent to Vienna, Austria, by her parents in order to flee the Iranian regime. According to her autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis, she lived there during her high school years, returning to Iran for college. At college, she met a man named Reza, married then divorced him, and moved to France. She currently lives in Paris, where she works as an illustrator and an author of children's books.

Satrapi has become famous worldwide because of her critically acclaimed, autobiographical graphic novels Persepolis and Persepolis 2, which describe her childhood in Iran and her adolescence in Europe in an intelligent and engaging portrait of everyday life. She also won the Album of the Year award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival for her latest novel, Poulet aux prunes .

External links

• A few pages of Persepolis
• Her author page at Pantheon Comics' Web site