MARJANE SATRAPI

'Marjane Satrapi' (Persian: 'مرجان ساتراپی') (born 1969 in Rasht, Iran) is a contemporary graphic novelist, illustrator and children's book author.

Contents

Biography

Bibliography

French

English

Awards

See also

References

External links

Biography

Satrapi grew up in Tehran in a progressive family. She attended the Lycée Français there and witnessed, as a child, the growing oppression of civil liberties and the everyday-life consequences of Iranian politics, including the fall of the Shah, the early regime of Ayatollah Khomeini and the first years of the Iran-Iraq war.
Satrapi's mother is a great-granddaughter of Nasser-al-Din Shah, Shah of Persia from 1848 until 1896. However, Satrapi points out that "the kings of the Qajar dynasty...had hundreds of wives. They made thousands of kids. If you multiply these kids by generation you have, I don't know, ten to fifteen thousand princes and princesses. There's nothing extremely special about that."^[1]
In 1983, at the age of 14, Satrapi was sent to Vienna, Austria, by her parents in order to flee the Iranian regime. According to her autobiographical graphic novel ''Persepolis'', she lived there during her high school years, returning to Iran for college. At college, she met a man named Reza, married then divorced him, and moved to Strasbourg, France. She currently lives in Paris, where she works as an illustrator and an author of children's books.

Satrapi's career began in earnest when she met David B., a French comics artist. She adopted a style similar to his, especially in her earliest works. Satrapi became famous worldwide because of her critically acclaimed, autobiographical graphic novels ''Persepolis'' and ''Persepolis 2'', which describe her childhood in Iran and her adolescence in Europe in an intelligent and engaging portrait of everyday life. ''Persepolis'' won the ''Angoulême ''Coup de Coeur'' Award'' at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. Her later publication, ''Broderies'' (''Embroideries'') was also nominated for the Angoulême Album of the Year award in 2003, an award which was won by her most recent novel, ''Poulet aux prunes''.^[2][3] She has also contributed to the Op-Ed section of ''The New York Times''.^[4]
''Persepolis'' was adapted into an animated film of the same name, which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2007 and shared a Special Jury Prize with ''Still Light'' by Carlos Reygados. Co-written and co-directed by Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, the French-language picture stars the voices of Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, and Simon Abkarian. It will also be released in English with the voices of Gena Rowlands, Sean Penn and Iggy Pop.^[5][6]

Bibliography

French

★ ''Persepolis''

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★ ''Persepolis 1'' (2000, L'Association, ISBN 2-84414-058-0)

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★ ''Persepolis 2'' (2001, L'Association, ISBN 2-84414-079-3)

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★ ''Persepolis 3'' (2002, L'Association, ISBN 2-84414-104-8)

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★ ''Persepolis 4'' (2003, L'Association, ISBN 2-84414-137-4)

★ ''Sagesses et malices de la Perse'' (2001, with Lila Ibrahim-Ouali and Bahman Namwar-Motlag, Albin Michel, ISBN 2-2261-1872-1)

★ ''Les monstres n'aiment pas la lune'' (2001, Nathan Jeunesse, ISBN 2-0928-2094-X)

★ ''Ulysse au pays des fous'' (2001, with Jean-Pierre Duffour, Nathan Jeunesse, ISBN 2-0921-0847-6)

★ ''Adjar'' (2002, Nathan Jeunesse, ISBN 2-0921-1033-0)

★ ''Broderies'' (2003, L'Association, ISBN 2-84414-095-5)

★ ''Poulet aux prunes'' (2004, L'Association, ISBN 2-84414-159-5)

★ ''Le Soupir'' (2004, Bréal Jeunesse, ISBN 2-7495-0325-6)

English

★ ''Persepolis''

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★ ''Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood'' (2003, Pantheon ISBN 978-0-375-42230-0)

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★ ''Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return'' (2004, Pantheon ISBN 978-0-375-42288-1)

★ ''Embroideries'' (2005, Pantheon ISBN 978-0-375-42305-5)

★ ''Chicken with Plums'' (2006, Pantheon ISBN 978-0-375-42415-1)

★ ''Monsters Are Afraid of the Moon'' (2006, Bloomsbury ISBN 1-5823-4744-1)

Awards

★ 2001: Angoulême ''Coup de Coeur'' Award for ''Persepolis'' ^[7]

★ 2002: Angoulême Prize for Scenario for ''Persepolis: Tome 2'' ^[8]

★ 2005: Angoulême Best Comic Book Award for ''Poulet aux prunes''

★ Grand Prize of the Jury, Cannes Film Festival (2007)

See also

★ List of famous Iranian women

References

★ Marjane Satrapi albums Bedetheque

★ Marjane Satrapi publications Pantheon Books

★ ''Eye'', No. 50, Vol. 13, edited by John L. Walters, Quantum Publishing, Winter 2003.
'Footnotes'
1. A life in graphic detail
2. Les nominés d’Angoulême 2003
3. 32ème FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL D'ANGOULEME
4. Satrapi, Marjane (2005-05-29), "Op-Art". ''The New York Times''; Satrapi, Marjane (2003-12-10), "Op-Art; The Diary of a Nobelist". ''The New York Times''. [1]
5. SPC draws up rights for novel series
6. ''Hollywood Reporter'', Jul 17, 2007
7. Awards of the 2001 Angoulême International Comics Festival
8. Angoulême 2002 : les lauréats

External links

★ Excerpt from ''Persepolis''

★ ''Persepolis 2.1 – The Story of a Signing'' on Stripped Books

★ Marjane Satrapi biography on Lambiek Comiclopedia

★ Marjane Satrapi biography on Pantheon Comics

★ Marjane Satrapi interview ''Princess of Darkness'' by Robert Chalmers, The Independent

★ Marjane Satrapi interview at Bookslut

★ Marjane Satrapi interview at Newsarama

★ Marjane Satrapi interview at Powells

★ ''Persepolis'' film on Sony Picture Classics