Marjane Satrapi obituary

French-Iranian artist, writer and director best known for her graphic novel Persepolis that was later turned into a film The French-Iranian artist, writer and film director Marjane Satrapi, who has died unexpectedly aged 56, spent much of her life in exile highlighting the struggles of ordinary Iranians – particularly women and girls – under the repressive Islamic regime. She did this famously through her semi-autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis , published in four volumes in France between 2000 and 2003, and later adapted for film , which told the story of Marji, a girl whose childhood is marked by the overthrow of the shah, the rise of the ayatollahs and the Iran-Iraq war, mirroring Satrapi’s own experience. Continue reading...