Marjane Satrapi turned 56
Updated 10.49 | Published 10.07
The French-Iranian artist, director and cartoonist Marjane Satrapi is dead, according to AFP.
Satrapi is best known for his cartoon novel and film “Persepolis”.
“She died of grief a little more than a year later Matthias Ripas demise. He was her husband and great love in life,” the family writes in a statement to AFP.
The husband, a Swedish producer, actor and screenwriter, died on April 8 last year.
First part i Marjane Satrapis autobiographical serial novel “Persepolis” came out in 2004 and received a lot of attention. In Swedish, the novel was published in four parts. Satrapi told the story of 8-year-old Marjane who witnesses the Iranian revolution in Tehran in 1978.
After the war against Iraq, she comes to Austria and experiences freedom and love but also loneliness and exclusion. Marjane Satrapi herself directed the animated film based on the novel and then moved on to work as a film director.
When Mahsa Zhina Amini was arrested by the Iranian morality police and died in custody, Marjane Satrapi returned to comics and made the album “Woman, life, freedom” together with 16 other Iranian cartoonists.
Marjane Satrapi turned 56.
