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Satrapi, who was nine years old when Pahlavi was toppled and Ayatollah Khomeini came to power in 1979, recounted her experiences growing up under the latter’s draconian government in the graphic novel Persepolis.
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Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 4 June 2026
Iranian-French filmmaker and author Marjane Satrapi, whose graphic novel series and film Persepolis, introduced the Western world to the precarity of everyday life in the wake of the Islamic Revolution, died on June 3.
—News Desk, Artforum, 4 June 2026
The life of the Marjane character in the graphic novel mirrors Satrapi’s.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 4 June 2026
Her subsequent graphic novel Chicken with Plums won the Angoulême Best Comic Book Award in 2005.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2026
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Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 4 June 2026
Iranian-French filmmaker and author Marjane Satrapi, whose graphic novel series and film Persepolis, introduced the Western world to the precarity of everyday life in the wake of the Islamic Revolution, died on June 3.
—News Desk, Artforum, 4 June 2026
The life of the Marjane character in the graphic novel mirrors Satrapi’s.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 4 June 2026
Her subsequent graphic novel Chicken with Plums won the Angoulême Best Comic Book Award in 2005.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2026
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“Graphic novel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/graphic%20novel. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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