Marjane Satrapi (Persian: مرجان ساتراپی) (born November 22, 1969 in Rasht, Iran) is an Iranian and French contemporary graphic novelist, illustrator, Academy Award-nominated animated film director, and children's book author.
Satrapi grew up in Tehran in a family which was involved with the communist and socialist movements in Iran, prior to the Iranian Revolution. She attended the Lycée Français there and witnessed, as a child, the growing suppr...
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Marjane Satrapi (Persian: مرجان ساتراپی) (born November 22, 1969 in Rasht, Iran) is an Iranian and French contemporary graphic novelist, illustrator, Academy Award-nominated animated film director, and children's book author.
Satrapi grew up in Tehran in a family which was involved with the communist and socialist movements in Iran, prior to the Iranian Revolution. She attended the Lycée Français there and witnessed, as a child, the growing suppression of civil liberties and the everyday-life consequences of Iranian politics, including the fall of the Shah, the early regime of Ruhollah Khomeini, and the first years of the Iran-Iraq war.
Satrapi's family are of distant Iranian Azeri ancestry and are descendants of Nasser al-Din Shah, Shah of Persia from 1848 until 1896. Satrapi said that "But you have to know the kings of the Qajar dynasty, they had hundreds of wives. They made thousands of kids. If you multiply these kids by generation you have, I don't know, 10-15,000 princes [and...
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