Marjane Satrapi will be remembered for her eye-opening film Persepolis which transformed not only Westerners but also exiled Iranians’ understanding of Iran in a simple yet powerful way.

Acclaimed Iranian French cartoonist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi, a prominent advocate for women's rights and author of ...

Persepolis begins with the Revolution, when Marjane’s father, Ebi, tells his daughter why they took to the streets to fight: ...

Satrapi's autobiographical novel was born from her experiences of Iran's Islamic revolution and war with Iraq.

Satrapi's family told the Agence France-Presse news agency that the French Iranian graphic novelist "died of sadness" Sylvain Lefevre/Getty Marjane Satrapi, the author best known for the acclaimed ...

The French-Iranian filmmaker shed light on the untold lives of Iranian women following the 1979 Islamic Revolution. As the US ...

Family members said the author of the landmark comic book memoir ‘died of sadness’ after the death of her husband last year Marjane Satrapi, the French-Iranian artist, film-maker and graphic novelist ...

PARIS — Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian French artist, filmmaker and author of the autobiographical graphic novel "Persepolis," has died. She was 56. Satrapi's family confirmed her death in a statement ...

A committed advocate to furthering free speech and women's rights in her birth country, Satrapi lost her husband, Swedish ...