Marjane Satrapi

Overview

Marjane Satrapi born Rasht, Imperial State of Iran November 22, 1969. Satrapi is a French-Iranian graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director and children's book author whose graphic novels explore the gaps and the junctures between East and West. Her best-known works include the graphic novels Persepolis and Chicken with Plums. Satrapi has become an ambassador for her native country and a spokeswoman for greater freedom there and a voice against war and for cross-cultural understanding. Her use of graphic novels to tell autobiographical stories with political facets to them makes her messages especially accessible and affecting while bringing serious attention to the graphic-novel form.

Quotations

“It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.”