Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian-French artist, filmmaker and writer of the autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis, has died aged 56, French President Emmanuel Macron’s workplace mentioned on Thursday (Jun 4)
“Her passing is that of a determine of French tradition and of an artist enamored of freedom, whose work carried a common message and had earned her immense worldwide renown,” the Elysee mentioned in an announcement.
An announcement launched by members of her household to the French information company AFP mentioned she had died of “unhappiness” just a little over a yr after the dying of her husband, Swedish actor, producer and screenwriter Mattias Ripa. No additional details about the reason for her dying was obtainable.
Born in 1969, Satrapi spent her childhood in Tehran in a communist-leaning family. Her dad and mom despatched her to Vienna as an adolescent, earlier than she returned to Iran to review tremendous arts and later settled in France, the place she continued her coaching in Strasbourg.
She drew on that lifetime of revolution, exile and return in Persepolis, the stark black-and-white memoir that chronicled her childhood throughout and after Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. The guide turned a global success and was later tailored into an animated movie, which received the jury prize at Cannes and was nominated for an Academy Award.
