Talking Comics

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Born 1969 in Rasht, Iran, Marjane Satrapi’s family life has been determined by the political whirlwinds that her country has been going through ever since. At the age of 14, her parents sent her to Europe, where she eventually studied art in Strasbourg. In 1994 she moved to Paris and started to create comics and children’s books. In a series of graphic novels that were first published in French in four volumes between 2001 and 2003, she tells the history of her country through the story of her own life — Persepolis. Today, high schools across Europe and the Americas use ‘Persepolis’ for history, gender and political science classes. It has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, English, Dutch and German, won several comics awards, and sold half a million copies worldwide. The English translation is by Vintage Books’ editor Anjali Singh for Pantheon Books, Random House. ...cont´d

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