Marjane Satrapi's memoir has a history of garnering controversy — it's been on the ALA's list of most challenged books and continues to be the subject of debate about inclusion in school ...

Every page of Marjane Satrapi’s iconic graphic memoir of growing up in Iran, ... That’s the number of children who have been killed so far in the war in Gaza since 7 October.

Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis" won international acclaim as an autobiographical tale, told first in the form of a graphic novel, later turned into a film, of a young girl coming of age amid the ...

Marjane Satrapi, a graphic novelist, holds her latest book Woman, Life, Freedom, in her home in Paris, France. (Eleanor Beardsley/ NPR) PARIS — In her bright Paris apartment, Marjane Satrapi ...

In 2000, Marjane Satrapi published “Persepolis,” a graphic novel memoir depicting her childhood before and after the Islamic revolution in 1979. This week, Sotheby’s will auction part of ...

The subtitle for Marjane Satrapi’s highly personal animated film “Persepolis” might as well be “Iranians: They’re Just Like Us.” They lose their keys, dance to “Eye of the Tiger ...

Marjane Satrapi, whose graphic novel series, “Persepolis,” about growing up in and leaving Tehran, won her international acclaim and millions of book sales, turned away from the form two ...

The French Iranian author and artist, best known for her graphic novel Persepolis, edited and contributed to a new graphic anthology titled Woman, Life, Freedom, inspired by Iran's recent protests.