Marjane Satrapi, ‘Persepolis’ Director, Dies at 56 https://t.co/4StgjDm38R
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Marjane Satrapi, the French-Iranian graphic novelist, artist and film director behind the graphic novel Persepolis and its film adaptation has passed away at the age of 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.
Satrapi is best-known for Persepolis, the animated adaptation of her autobiographical graphic novel.
“Persepolis, the film and the graphic novel, trace Satrapi’s childhood in post-revolutionary Iran as the daughter of upper-middle-class leftist activists who opposed the monarchy of the last Shah and were persecuted following the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Satrapi was nine years old at the time and Persepolis, takes her child’s perspective as the country she knew disappears before her eyes.”
