Marjane Satrapi

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Marjane Satrapi

Born 22 November 1969 (1969-11-22) (age 39)
Rasht, Iran
Nationality Iranian[1][2][3]
Area(s) Artist & Writer
Notable works Persepolis
Embroideries
Chicken with Plums
Awards full list
Satrapi attended the Lycée Français de Vienne

Marjane Satrapi (Persian: مرجان ساتراپی) (born November 22, 1969 in Rasht, Iran) is an Iranian[1] and French[2][3] contemporary graphic novelist, illustrator, Academy Award-nominated animated film director, and children's book author.

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[edit] Biography

Satrapi grew up in Tehran in a family which was involved with 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 princesses]. There's nothing extremely special about that."[4] She added that due to this detail, most Iranian families would be, in the words of Simon Hattenstone of The Guardian, "blue blooded."[5]

In 1983, at the age of 14, Satrapi was sent to Vienna, Austria by her parents in order to flee the Iranian regime. There she attended the Lycée Français de Vienne.[6] According to her autobiographical graphic novel, Persepolis, she lived there during her high school years, living in friends' homes, and eventually became homeless. After an almost deadly bout of pneumonia, she returned to Iran. She went to university in Iran and met a man named Reza, whom she married at age 21 and divorced roughly three years later.

She then studied Visual Communication, eventually obtaining a Master's Degree in Visual Communication from the School of Fine Arts in Tehran, Islamic Azad University.[citation needed] Satrapi then moved to Strasbourg, France. She currently lives in Paris, where she works as an illustrator and an author of children's books.

[edit] Career

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. Persepolis won the Angoulême Coup de Coeur Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. Her later publication, Embroideries (Broderies) was also nominated for the Angoulême Album of the Year award in 2003, an award which was won by her most recent novel, Chicken with Plums (Poulet aux prunes).[7][8] She has also contributed to the Op-Ed section of The New York Times.[9]

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 Silent Light (Luz silenciosa) by Carlos Reygadas. 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. The English version, starring the voices of Gena Rowlands, Sean Penn, and Iggy Pop, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in January 2008. She and director Vincent Paronnaud are currently teaming together again for a live-action adaptation of her graphic novel "Chicken With Plums." [10][11]

Following the Iranian elections in June 2009, Marjane Satrapi and Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf appeared before Green Party members in the European Parliament to present a document allegedly received from a member of the Iranian electoral commission claiming that the liberal candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi had actually won the election, and that the conservative incumbent Mahmoud Ahmedinejad had received only 12% of the vote.[12]

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Cover of Persepolis 1, 2000. L'Association French edition.

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Marjane Satrapi at the premiere of Persepolis

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Footnotes
  1. ^ a b Marjane Satrapi on the site of the Festival of Cannes
  2. ^ a b J’ai été très bien accueillie et je n’oublierai jamais que j’ai été naturalisée grâce à Jack Lang.Abusdecine perse les secrets de « Persepolis »
  3. ^ a b Vingt-deux films pour une palme d'Or
  4. ^ Jones, Vanessa E. (October 4, 2004). "A life in graphic detail". Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2004/10/04/a_life_in_graphic_detail/. 
  5. ^ Hattenstone, Simon. "Confessions of Miss Mischief." The Guardian. Saturday 29 March 2008. Retrieved on 21 September 2009.
  6. ^ Bédarida, Catherine. "Marjane Satrapi dessine la vie de l'Iran." Le Monde. 25 June 2003. Retrieved on 21 September 2009.
  7. ^ ActuaBD (December 10, 2003). "Les nominés d’Angoulême 2003". http://www.actuabd.com/spip.php?article1006. (French)
  8. ^ a b BDParadisio. "32ème FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL D'ANGOULEME". http://www.bdparadisio.com/angou2005/angou2005.htm. (French)
  9. ^ 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]
  10. ^ "SPC draws up rights for novel series". Variety. 2006-05-23. http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=features2006&content=jump&jump=story&dept=cannes&nav=NCannes&articleid=VR1117943962&cs=1. 
  11. ^ Hollywood Reporter, 17 July 2007
  12. ^ Los Angeles Times http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/06/iranian-author-marjane-satrapi-speaks-out-about-election.html
  13. ^ Comic Book Awards Almanac. "Awards of the 2001 Angoulême International Comics Festival". http://users.rcn.com/aardy/comics/awards/prixa01.shtml. 
  14. ^ ActuaBD (2002-01-25). "Angoulême 2002: les lauréats". http://www.actuabd.com/spip.php?article143. (French)
  15. ^ De Morgen on the honorific doctorate

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