Marjane Satrapi

Marjane Satrapi (b. 1969, Rasht, Iran) is an Iranian-French graphic novelist and filmmaker who lives and works in Paris. She studied at the École supérieure des arts décoratifs in Strasbourg and is among the most internationally recognized cartoonists of her generation.

Her autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis — published in four volumes by L'Association between 2000 and 2003, and collected in a single volume in 2007 — traces her childhood and adolescence in Tehran during and after the Islamic Revolution, her years at school in Vienna, and her return to Iran and eventual emigration to France. The book became one of the most widely read graphic novels in the world, translated into more than thirty languages. She co-directed the animated film adaptation of Persepolis (2007) with Vincent Paronnaud; the film received the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Subsequent graphic novels — Broderies (2003), Poulet aux prunes (2004) — extended her autobiographical range, and Poulet aux prunes was also adapted for film. Her live-action film Radioactive (2019) centered on the life and legacy of Marie Curie. Throughout her work, she engages the politics of memory, gender, and resistance, and her influence on graphic narrative has been substantial.