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Marjane Satrapi, Author of PERSEPOLIS, Has Died at 56

Marjane Satrapi, Author of PERSEPOLIS, Has Died at 56

Published by Jenni Sidey

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Marjane Satrapi, Author of PERSEPOLIS, Has Died at 56 Iranian French author Marjane Satrapi has passed away at 56. The cause and location of her death have not been shared, but one thing is certain: the world of graphic memoir has lost a giant. Satrapi’s best-known work, Persepolis, was published in the early 2000s and showed millions of readers the lives of everyday Iranians during the Islamic Revolution. As our Senior Editor Kelly Jensen stated, its blend of memoir, history, and stunning artwork has helped bring about our current, brilliant era of graphic memoir. President Emmanuel Macron’s office released a statement on the author’s influence: “Her passing marks the loss of a leading figure in French culture and a freedom-loving artist whose work carried a universal message and earned her immense international acclaim.” Everand and Fable Merge Forces to Make One Mighty Subscription Service Last year, Everand (an online book subscription service and subsidiary of …

Marjane Satrapi, ‘Persepolis’ Director, Dies at 56

Marjane Satrapi, ‘Persepolis’ Director, Dies at 56

Published by Jenni Sidey

Marjane Satrapi, the French-Iranian graphic novelist, artist and film director whose landmark animated feature Persepolis earned a Cannes Jury Prize and an Oscar nomination and made her one of the most distinctive voices in world cinema, has died. She was 56. “Marjane Satrapi died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life,” members of her family said in a statement sent to AFP. Ripa, a Swedish producer, actor and screenwriter, died April 8, 2025. A series of posts on Satrapi’s Instagram page in the weeks before her death spelled out the message: “For I Lost the love of my life.” Related Articles Satrapi is best-known in the film world for Persepolis, the animated adaptation of her autobiographical graphic novel. The film version, which she co-wrote and co-directed with Vincent Paronnaud, debuted at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, where it shared the Jury Prize with Carlos Reygadas’s Silent Light. Featuring the voices of Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve and Danielle Darrieux in the French version — and Gena …