Persepolis Creator Marjane Satrapi, Acclaimed Cartoonist and Filmmaker, Dead at 56

Marjane Satrapi, the cartoonist liable for the acclaimed Persepolis graphic novels, has died astatine property 56.

A connection "from adjacent friends and family" was provided to France's AFP newswire, which notes, “Marjane Satrapi died of sadness a small implicit a twelvemonth aft the decease of Mattias Ripa, her hubby and the emotion of her life.”

Satrapi was a French-Iranian cartoonist and filmmaker who catapulted to planetary stardom with the merchandise of the Persepolis graphic novels successful the aboriginal '00s. Persepolis is based connected Satrapi's troubled younker and aboriginal adulthood during and aft the Iranian Revolution. Alongside Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is wide regarded arsenic 1 of the finest biographical comics ever published.

Persepolis was primitively published successful France successful 4 volumes betwixt 2000 and 2003, and was aboriginal translated into English (with the assistance of Ripa) and released successful 2 volumes successful the US.

Satrapi and her enactment roseate to further prominence successful 2007 with the merchandise of the animated diagnostic movie adaptation. Satrapi co-wrote and co-directed the Perspolis film, which went connected to beryllium nominated for Best Animated Feature astatine the 80th Academy Awards. Satrapi was the archetypal pistillate to beryllium nominated for that award.

Satrapi's comics vocation besides included 2004's Chicken With Plums, based connected the waning days of 1 of Satrapi's relatives. That publication besides inspired a live-action movie adaptation, with Satrapi reuniting with Persepolis co-writer and co-director Vincent Paronnaud.

Persepolis was adapted arsenic an animated movie successful 2007.

Satrapi remained progressive arsenic a filmmaker successful the years that followed. Her filmography included 2012's Gang of the Jotas, 2014's The Voices, and 2019's Marie Curie biopic Radioactive.

Satrapi was besides an outspoken feminist and governmental activistic passim her career. In 2025, she refused the Légion d'honneur grant from the French government, criticizing France's hypocritical stance toward Iran and the deficiency of enactment provided to Iranian refugees.

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