{"id":3725,"date":"2026-06-04T23:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T23:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/?p=3725"},"modified":"2026-06-04T23:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T23:00:44","slug":"marjane-satrapi-author-of-comic-book-memoir-persepolis-dies-aged-56-20260605-p60468-htmlrefrssutm_mediumrssutm_sourcerss_feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/?p=3725","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis author and acclaimed graphic novelist dies at 56"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<header class=\"sc-ad76bc40-0 fNDZoQ\">\n<div class=\"sc-5cbbddda-0 hjlPcO\">\n<div data-testid=\"article-author\" class=\"sc-5cbbddda-1 hPBdKJ\">\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"sc-5cbbddda-4 borCAt\">Amelia Nierenberg<\/span> and <span class=\"sc-5cbbddda-4 borCAt\">S\u00e9gol\u00e8ne Le Stradic<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"article-datetime\" class=\"sc-5cbbddda-5 hxoHkT\"><span class=\"sc-a243f860-0 gjmXPs\"><time data-testid=\"storytile-timestamp\" 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56.<\/p>\n<p>The office of President Emmanuel Macron of France announced her death in a statement Thursday, but did not specify where, when or how she died.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"sc-4820f69c-1 ZrhPA\"><button aria-label=\"enlarge image\" type=\"button\" class=\"sc-4820f69c-5 dyWwUw\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-d34e428-0 ikzfwY\"><picture><source media=\"(min-width: 1000px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.18%2C$multiply_0.9841%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_19\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/7170bca3b5f4a6531b5f31db77e8631d5e217cfc, https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.18%2C$multiply_1.9683%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_19\/t_crop_custom\/q_62%2Cf_auto\/7170bca3b5f4a6531b5f31db77e8631d5e217cfc 2x\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 750px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.18%2C$multiply_1.0159%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_19\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/7170bca3b5f4a6531b5f31db77e8631d5e217cfc, 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class=\"sc-4820f69c-4 iMiYlW\"><g stroke=\"#F4F5F7\" stroke-width=\"2\" fill=\"none\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" transform=\"matrix(1, 0, 0, 1, 22.029383, 7.619553)\"><path d=\"M1 8l6.36396103-6.36396103M8 7V1H2\"\/><\/g><g stroke=\"#F4F5F7\" stroke-width=\"2\" fill=\"none\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" transform=\"matrix(1, 0, 0, 1, 7.0731, 21.523087)\"><path d=\"M8 1L1.63603897 7.36396103M1 2v6h6\"\/><\/g><\/svg><\/button><figcaption data-testid=\"figure-caption\" class=\"sc-4820f69c-0 SuAZY\"><span>Marjane Satrapi at Rome International Film Festival in 2012.<\/span><cite class=\"sc-4820f69c-2 jfXEoI\"><span class=\"sc-4820f69c-3 jfhtQZ\">AP<\/span><\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHer passing marks the loss of a leading figure in French culture and a freedom-loving artist whose work carried a universal message and earned her immense international acclaim,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>With the publication of <em>Persepolis<\/em> in the early 2000s, Satrapi became one of the best-known exponents of a form of graphic novel \u2014 influenced by Art Spiegelman\u2019s <em>Maus<\/em> \u2014 that combined political history and memoir.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-c502198b-0 NkURW\">\n<p>The protagonist, Marji, was depicted living through some of the most difficult years of Iranian history, closely mirroring Satrapi\u2019s own life.<\/p>\n<p>Both author and character were born in Iran in 1969. Both were about 10 when the shah was overthrown. Both lived through the rise of the clerics and the horror of the Iran-Iraq war, and both left the country at 14 to study in Austria.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"sc-4820f69c-1 ZrhPA\"><button aria-label=\"enlarge image\" type=\"button\" class=\"sc-4820f69c-5 dyWwUw\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-d34e428-0 ikzfwY\"><picture><source media=\"(min-width: 1000px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.299%2C$multiply_0.9841%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_88%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/aeb0260d409646cd419b3846fe81b911a8a6da5e, https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.299%2C$multiply_1.9683%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_88%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_62%2Cf_auto\/aeb0260d409646cd419b3846fe81b911a8a6da5e 2x\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 750px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.299%2C$multiply_1.0159%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_88%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/aeb0260d409646cd419b3846fe81b911a8a6da5e, https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.299%2C$multiply_2.0317%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_88%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_62%2Cf_auto\/aeb0260d409646cd419b3846fe81b911a8a6da5e 2x\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A still from the animated film Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, based on her comic book memoir.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.299%2C$multiply_0.7725%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_88%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/aeb0260d409646cd419b3846fe81b911a8a6da5e\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.299%2C$multiply_0.7725%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_88%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/aeb0260d409646cd419b3846fe81b911a8a6da5e, https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.299%2C$multiply_1.545%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_88%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_62%2Cf_auto\/aeb0260d409646cd419b3846fe81b911a8a6da5e 2x\" class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 38 38\" height=\"38px\" width=\"38px\" class=\"sc-4820f69c-4 iMiYlW\"><g stroke=\"#F4F5F7\" stroke-width=\"2\" fill=\"none\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" transform=\"matrix(1, 0, 0, 1, 22.029383, 7.619553)\"><path d=\"M1 8l6.36396103-6.36396103M8 7V1H2\"\/><\/g><g stroke=\"#F4F5F7\" stroke-width=\"2\" fill=\"none\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" transform=\"matrix(1, 0, 0, 1, 7.0731, 21.523087)\"><path d=\"M8 1L1.63603897 7.36396103M1 2v6h6\"\/><\/g><\/svg><\/button><figcaption data-testid=\"figure-caption\" class=\"sc-4820f69c-0 SuAZY\"><span>A still from the animated film Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, based on her comic book memoir.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 1994, Satrapi moved to Paris, where she wrote the <em>Persepolis<\/em> series. The books were published in France from 2000 to 2003; the first volume of an English translation was published in 2003, and the second volume was released a year later.<\/p>\n<p>Millions of readers bought the books, which became a popular school assignment and among the widest-read works to explore the interior lives of modern Iranians. The series was adapted into a 2007 film that was nominated for an Academy Award for best animated feature.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-c502198b-0 NkURW\">\n<p><em>Persepolis<\/em>, author Fernanda Eberstadt wrote in a <em>New York Times<\/em> review, \u201cdances with drama and insouciant wit\u201d, its inky black-and-white drawings modelled on contemporary comics and Persian miniatures.<\/p>\n<p>Not quite two decades later, Satrapi set to work documenting another tumultuous moment in Iranian history: the unrest in 2022 that followed the death, in police custody, of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, who had been detained and accused of violating a law requiring women to wear the hijab in public.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"sc-4820f69c-1 ZrhPA\"><button aria-label=\"enlarge image\" type=\"button\" class=\"sc-4820f69c-5 dyWwUw\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-d34e428-0 ikzfwY\"><picture><source media=\"(min-width: 1000px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.115%2C$multiply_0.9841%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/0c18e09f61051ee4a9862fc9988db98fd566b319, https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.115%2C$multiply_1.9683%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_62%2Cf_auto\/0c18e09f61051ee4a9862fc9988db98fd566b319 2x\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 750px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.115%2C$multiply_1.0159%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/0c18e09f61051ee4a9862fc9988db98fd566b319, https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.115%2C$multiply_2.0317%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_62%2Cf_auto\/0c18e09f61051ee4a9862fc9988db98fd566b319 2x\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The death of Mahsa Amini while in police custody after her arrest for  violating Iran\u2019s strictly-enforced dress code prompted protests around the world.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.115%2C$multiply_0.7725%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/0c18e09f61051ee4a9862fc9988db98fd566b319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.115%2C$multiply_0.7725%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/0c18e09f61051ee4a9862fc9988db98fd566b319, https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.115%2C$multiply_1.545%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_62%2Cf_auto\/0c18e09f61051ee4a9862fc9988db98fd566b319 2x\" class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 38 38\" height=\"38px\" width=\"38px\" class=\"sc-4820f69c-4 iMiYlW\"><g stroke=\"#F4F5F7\" stroke-width=\"2\" fill=\"none\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" transform=\"matrix(1, 0, 0, 1, 22.029383, 7.619553)\"><path d=\"M1 8l6.36396103-6.36396103M8 7V1H2\"\/><\/g><g stroke=\"#F4F5F7\" stroke-width=\"2\" fill=\"none\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" transform=\"matrix(1, 0, 0, 1, 7.0731, 21.523087)\"><path d=\"M8 1L1.63603897 7.36396103M1 2v6h6\"\/><\/g><\/svg><\/button><figcaption data-testid=\"figure-caption\" class=\"sc-4820f69c-0 SuAZY\"><span>The death of Mahsa Amini while in police custody after her arrest for  violating Iran\u2019s strictly-enforced dress code prompted protests around the world.<\/span><cite class=\"sc-4820f69c-2 jfXEoI\"><span class=\"sc-4820f69c-3 jfhtQZ\">AP<\/span><\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In protest, women across Iran tore off their veils, in one of the most significant cultural and political moments in the country since the 1979 revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Satrapi\u2019s work on the subject culminated in 2024 with the release of <em>Woman, Life, Freedom<\/em>, another work of graphic non-fiction. She contributed some drawings, but told the <em>Times<\/em> that she was more of a \u201cdirector\u201d of the project, which also featured work by other artists, activists, academics and journalists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-c502198b-0 NkURW\">\n<p>\u201cEven basic human rights, they deny us,\u201d she said of the Iranian government after the book was released. \u201cYou don\u2019t have the right to dance; you don\u2019t have the right to sing; you don\u2019t have the right to do this; you don\u2019t have the right to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Satrapi was born November 22, 1969, in Rasht, Iran, near the Caspian Sea, and grew up in Tehran. She had aristocratic ancestors, and her parents were cosmopolitan leftists; her father was an engineer and her mother designed dresses.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"sc-4820f69c-1 ZrhPA\"><button aria-label=\"enlarge image\" type=\"button\" class=\"sc-4820f69c-5 dyWwUw\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-d34e428-0 ikzfwY\"><picture><source media=\"(min-width: 1000px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.759%2C$multiply_0.9841%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_2%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/884fb860de6952708a3b0e7ddab7ed49c863ef15, https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.759%2C$multiply_1.9683%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_2%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_62%2Cf_auto\/884fb860de6952708a3b0e7ddab7ed49c863ef15 2x\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 750px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.759%2C$multiply_1.0159%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_2%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/884fb860de6952708a3b0e7ddab7ed49c863ef15, https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.759%2C$multiply_2.0317%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_2%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_62%2Cf_auto\/884fb860de6952708a3b0e7ddab7ed49c863ef15 2x\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ryan Reynolds in the 2014 film The Voices, directed by Satrapi.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.759%2C$multiply_0.7725%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_2%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/884fb860de6952708a3b0e7ddab7ed49c863ef15\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.759%2C$multiply_0.7725%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_2%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/884fb860de6952708a3b0e7ddab7ed49c863ef15, https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.759%2C$multiply_1.545%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_2%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_62%2Cf_auto\/884fb860de6952708a3b0e7ddab7ed49c863ef15 2x\" class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 38 38\" height=\"38px\" width=\"38px\" class=\"sc-4820f69c-4 iMiYlW\"><g stroke=\"#F4F5F7\" stroke-width=\"2\" fill=\"none\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" transform=\"matrix(1, 0, 0, 1, 22.029383, 7.619553)\"><path d=\"M1 8l6.36396103-6.36396103M8 7V1H2\"\/><\/g><g stroke=\"#F4F5F7\" stroke-width=\"2\" fill=\"none\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" transform=\"matrix(1, 0, 0, 1, 7.0731, 21.523087)\"><path d=\"M8 1L1.63603897 7.36396103M1 2v6h6\"\/><\/g><\/svg><\/button><figcaption data-testid=\"figure-caption\" class=\"sc-4820f69c-0 SuAZY\"><span>Ryan Reynolds in the 2014 film The Voices, directed by Satrapi.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They opposed the shah and protested against his government, but were disillusioned by the political and cultural crackdown that followed the revolution and the end of his rule. Marjane\u2019s uncle was accused of being a Soviet spy, jailed and executed.<\/p>\n<p>Marjane bridled against the new restrictions on dress and behaviour. When she was 14, she hit a school principal who had tried to confiscate her jewellery, and her parents, worried for her safety, sent her to live with an Iranian family in Austria. There, she was overwhelmed by the experience of a very different world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-c502198b-0 NkURW\">\n<p>\u201cAt her nadir,\u201d Simon Hattenstone wrote in <em>The Guardian<\/em> in 2008, \u201cshe was peddling drugs, homeless, and she almost died from bronchitis. After four years in Vienna, she admitted defeat, put on her veil and returned home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Back in Iran in 1989, she studied art in Tehran and had an early marriage that ended in divorce, then returned to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProbably I left Iran because I was not brave enough,\u201d she told <em>The Seattle Post-Intelligencer<\/em> in 2003. \u201cI just needed to have more social freedom to be able to do my work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She got a second art degree in Strasbourg, France, before moving to Paris.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like living there because I can smoke everywhere, but it is going to change,\u201d she said in 2007, around the time that smoking was banned in many public spaces in France. (Two years before, she had published an illustrated ode to smoking in the <em>Times<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-c502198b-0 NkURW\">\n<p>Maybe, she mused, she would move to Greece, which had yet to introduce such stringent smoking restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Her husband, Mattias Ripa, who helped translate <em>Persepolis<\/em> into English, died last year. A list of her survivors was not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>Satrapi wrote several children\u2019s books and other graphic novels, including <em>Chicken with Plums<\/em>, the story of the death of her great-uncle, which was also turned into a film. Another of her works, <em>Embroideries<\/em>, depicted Iranian women discussing love, sex and men over afternoon tea.<\/p>\n<p>She directed several feature films, including <em>The Voices<\/em> (2014), with Ryan Reynolds, and <em>Radioactive<\/em> (2019), starring Rosamund Pike as Marie Curie.<\/p>\n<p>She also won acclaim as a painter and was elected in 2024 to the Acad\u00e9mie des Beaux-Arts, one of the highest honours in the French art world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-c502198b-0 NkURW\">\n<p>Though she created some of the best-known works in the graphic novel genre, Satrapi told the Times in 2007 that she never liked the category\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"sc-4820f69c-1 ZrhPA\"><button aria-label=\"enlarge image\" type=\"button\" class=\"sc-4820f69c-5 dyWwUw\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-d34e428-0 ikzfwY\"><picture><source media=\"(min-width: 1000px)\" 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