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Marjane Satrapi

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Marjane Satrapi

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Iranian-French graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author (born 1969)

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Marjane Satrapi is an Iranian-French artist and writer known for creating graphic novels, cartoons, illustrations, and children's books, as well as directing films. Her work is significant for bringing visual storytelling and personal narratives to international audiences across multiple artistic forms.

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Person · Open Library

Born
22 November 1969
Died
4 June 2026
Works
21

Top works

  • Persepolis 1 by Marjane Satrapi
  • Persepolis 2
  • Persepolis 1
  • Persepolis 1 & 2
  • The Complete Persepolis

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
France
Active from
1969-11-22
Active to
2026-06

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
44
Total plays
117

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Quotes

  • When they talk about “The men ruined this, the men did that,” it is a person, and their sex comes after what they’ve done. I believe that we say too much “We the women” and “We the men,” but should say “We the human beings.” There are really two types of human being -- the ones who care about environment, who want a more just society; and the other ones who care about greed and war. So it’s not a question of East and West, and American and Iranian, and women and men.
  • The words are not the same and the feeling is not the same. You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman. She is either beautiful or faithful. So it’s better when she’s beautiful because when she’s too faithful it might be very ugly. This is French people. This translation, though, is very well made. This is my American editor, who knows me very well who has made the translation. But in any translation you lose a little bit.
  • If the majority of people were right, we'd be living in paradise. But we are not living in paradise, we are living in hell. What does it mean? That means the majority of people are wrong. So I never believed what people told me.
  • This is past, and it really comes from a very dark moment of my life. Dying is...When people say there is no alternative, there is always an alternative - to die, for example. It's a choice. You always have this choice.
  • Well depressive, I don't know. If you have a little sensibility or a heart you have all the reason to be depressed once in a while. But the depression is like a motor for creation. I need a little bit of depression, a bit of acid in my stomach, to be able to create. When I'm happy I just want to dance."

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Works in European collections

2 objects attributed to Marjane Satrapi, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Marjane Satrapi ( French: [maʁʒan satʁapi]; Persian: مرجان ساتراپی [mæɾˈdʒɒːn(e) sɒːtɾɒːˈpiː]; born 22 November 1969) is a French-Iranian graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author. Her best-known works include the graphic novel Persepolis and its film adaptation, the graphic novel Chicken with Plums, Woman, Life, Freedom and the Marie Curie biopic Radioactive.

Biography

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Marjane Satrapi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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