Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis" won international acclaim as an autobiographical tale, told first in the form of a graphic novel, later turned into a film, of a young girl coming of age amid the ...

When Marjane Satrapi was 14, her parents decided to spare her the tension of living in war-ravaged Iran. Off she went to Vienna, there to spend her teen years in secular schools, getting a dose of ...

Marjane Satrapi is not coy about saying how much Persepolis, the animated film based on her graphic novels, draws on her own experiences. "These kinds of things, you cannot make them up," she says ...

A nine-meter-tall Olympic-themed tapestry by artist and author Marjane Satrapi was unveiled in Paris on Tuesday, March 12, ahead of the Olympic Games which commence on July 26.

BIO Born Nov. 22, 1969, in Rasht, Iran, and grew up in Tehran. Sent to live in Austria at 14 during the Iran-Iraq war. Returned to Iran after her high school years and attended art school in ...

Marjane Satrapi has had a busy year: Finish the direction of an animated adaptation of her graphic novel Persepolis, then watch the movie earn an Oscar nomination. But then Satrapi has had a busy ...

Author/illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best-known for her graphic memoirs Persepolis and Persepolis 2, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts. Satrapi's ...

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The art, though less mature in “Persepolis,” was more visceral. However, “Persepolis 2” has a better story. Satrapi has real comic timing, which she makes good use of in the teenage narrative.

Marjane Satrapi: It is not as if they have sent me letters saying, “If you come back we will do this or that to you.” But I don’t know what will happen, and so I don’t go back.

Even as Marjane Satrapi is unveiling her new film “Chicken With Plums” for North American audiences at the Tribeca Film Festival, the Iranian-born French filmmaker already has her next project ...