Marjane Satrapi

October 10th, 2006

A contemporary graphic novelist and author, Marjane Satrapi was born in 1969 in Iran, grew up in Tehran and witness during his childhood a particularly strong shift in The Iranian Regime, with the fall of the Shah, the rising of the Islamic Revolution of the Ayatollahs, and the Iran/ Iraq war.

She now lives in Paris where she both works on Graphic novels and children books.

She met a great worldwide success and got famous for her extra-ordinary autobiographic comic book series, Persepolis.

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