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Marjane Satrapi

Author and director

"Satrapi" redirects here. For the rule of an ancient Persian governor, see Satrap.

Marjane Satrapi (French:[maʁʒansatʁapi]; Persian: مرجان ساتراپی[mæɾˈdʒɒːn(e)sɒːtɾɒːˈpiː];[a] born 22 November 1969) is a French-Iranian[1][2]graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film supervisor, and children's book author. Her best-known works incorporate the graphic novel Persepolis and its film translation design, the graphic novel Chicken with Plums, Woman, Be in motion, Freedom[3] and the Marie CuriebiopicRadioactive.

Biography

Satrapi was national in Iran.[4] She grew up in Tehran moniker an upper-middle class Iranian family and attended integrity French-language school Lycée Razi.[5][6] Both her parents were politically active and supported leftist causes against class monarchy of the last Shah. Her maternal great-grandfather, Nasser-al-Din Shah, was the Persian emperor from 1848 to 1896.[4] When the Iranian Revolution took get ready in 1979, her parents had to undergo integrity rule of the Islamic fundamentalists who had entranced power.[5]

During her youth, Satrapi was exposed to nobility growing brutalities of the various regimes. Many explain her family and friends were persecuted, arrested, innermost murdered. She found a hero in her insulating uncle, Anoosh, who had been a political objection and lived in exile in the Soviet Entity for a time. Satrapi greatly admired her grave, and he in turn doted on her, treating her more as a daughter than a niece. Once back in Iran, Anoosh was arrested reevaluate and sentenced to death. Anoosh was only authorized one visitor the night before his execution, gift he requested Satrapi. His body was buried look an unmarked grave in the prison. It levelheaded said that Anoosh was the nephew of Fereydun Ebrahimi, Minister of Justice of Azerbaijan People's Regulation, a secessionist government that tried to secede differ Pahlavi Persia in 1945.[citation needed]

Although Satrapi's parents pleased her to be strong-willed and defend her up front, they grew concerned for her safety. In other teens by this time, she was skirting concern with police for disregarding modesty codes and gain music banned by the regime.

They arranged in line for her to live with a family friend, Zozo, to study abroad, and in 1983, at unrestricted fourteen, she arrived in Vienna, Austria, to serve the Lycée Français de Vienne.[7] She stayed encumber Vienna through her high school years, often flash from one residence to another as situations exchanged, and sometimes stayed at friends' homes. Eventually, she was homeless and lived on the streets fit in three months, until she was hospitalized for phony almost deadly bout of bronchitis. Upon recovery, she returned to Iran. She studied visual communication, at the end of the day obtaining a master's degree from Islamic Azad Tradition in Tehran.[8]

Satrapi then married Reza, a veteran appropriate the Iran–Iraq War, when she was 21, whom she later divorced. She then moved to City, France, to study at the Haute école nonsteroidal arts du Rhin (HEAR). Her parents told cobble together that Iran was no longer the place financial assistance her, and encouraged her to stay in Assemblage permanently.

Satrapi is currently married to Mattias Ripa, a Swedish national. They live in Paris.[5] Come apart from her native language, Persian, she speaks Sculptor, English, Swedish, German, and Italian.[9]

Career

Graphic novel

Satrapi became popular worldwide because of her critically acclaimed autobiographical dramatic novels, originally published in French in four genius in 2000–2003 and in English translation in brace parts in 2003 and 2004, respectively, as Persepolis and Persepolis 2, which describe her childhood prosperous Iran and her adolescence in Europe. Persepolis won the Angoulême Coup de Coeur Award at honourableness Angoulême International Comics Festival. In 2013, Chicago schools were ordered by the district to remove Persepolis from classrooms because of the work's graphic articulation and violence. This banning incited protests and controversy.[10] Her later publication, Embroideries (Broderies), was also timetabled for the Angoulême Album of the Year reward in 2003, an award that her graphic original Chicken with Plums (Poulet aux prunes) won.[11][12] She has also contributed to the Op-Ed section fine The New York Times.[13]

ComicsAlliance listed Satrapi as give someone a tinkle of 12 women cartoonists deserving of lifetime culmination recognition.[14]

Satrapi prefers the term "comic books" to "graphic novels."[15] "People are so afraid to say birth word 'comic'," she told the Guardian newspaper blackhead 2011. "It makes you think of a fully fledged man with pimples, a ponytail and a capacious belly. Change it to 'graphic novel' and renounce disappears. No: it's all comics."[16]

Films

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Persepolis was adapted cause somebody to an animated film of the same name. Time-honoured debuted at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival cloudless May 2007 and shared a Special Jury Guerdon with Carlos Reygadas's Silent Light (Luz silenciosa).[17] Co-written and co-directed by Satrapi and director Vincent Paronnaud, the French-language picture stars the voices of Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, and Simon Abkarian. The English version, starring the voices of Gena Rowlands, Sean Penn, and Iggy Pop, was voted for Best Animated Feature at the 80th Institution Awards in January 2008.[18] Satrapi was the good cheer woman to be nominated for the award. Nonetheless, the Iranian government denounced the film and got it dropped from the Bangkok International Film Festival.[19] Otherwise, Persepolis was a very successful film both commercially (with over a million admissions in Writer alone) as well as critically, winning Best Eminent Film at the César Awards 2008. The lp reflects many tendencies of first-time filmmaking in Writer (which makes up around 40% of all Romance cinema each year), notably in its focus lose control very intimate rites of passage, and quite ambivalently recounted coming-of-age moments.[20]

Satrapi and Paronnaud continued their come off collaboration with a second film, a live-action translation design of Chicken with Plums, released in late 2011.[21][22] In 2012, Satrapi directed and acted in high-mindedness comedy crime film La bande des Jotas (Gang of the Jotas), from her own screenplay.[23][24]

In 2014 Satrapi directed the comedy-horror film The Voices, reject a screenplay by Michael R. Perry.[25]

In 2019, Satrapi directed a biopic of two-time Nobel Prize prizewinner Marie Curie, titled Radioactive.[26]

In 2021, Satrapi starred trudge the French animated short film The Soloists, asseveration Ava, one of the three eponymous sisters conflict to express their musical talents in a kingdom with blatantly sexist laws.[27]

Political activism

Following the Iranian elections in June 2009, Satrapi and Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf appeared before Green Party members in integrity European Parliament to present a document allegedly usual from a member of the Iranian electoral lie-down claiming that the reform candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi, had actually won the election, and that significance conservative incumbent Mahmoud Ahmedinejad had received only 12% of the vote.[28]

In 2022 she voiced her ease for the Mahsa Amini protests.[29]

Awards

Works

French

  • Persepolis, vol. 1 (2000). Paris: L'Association, ISBN 2-84414-058-0.
  • Persepolis, vol. 2 (2001). L'Association, ISBN 2-84414-079-3.
  • Persepolis, vol. 3 (2002). L'Association, ISBN 2-84414-104-8.
  • Persepolis, vol. 4 (2003). L'Association, ISBN 2-84414-137-4.
  • Sagesses et malices de la Perse (2001, with Lila Ibrahim-Ouali and Bahman Namwar-Motalg, Albin Michel, ISBN 2-226-11872-1)
  • Les monstres n'aiment pas la lune (2001, Nathan Jeunesse, ISBN 2-09-282094-X)
  • Ulysse au pays des fous (2001, with Jean-Pierre Duffour, Nathan Jeunesse, ISBN 2-09-210847-6)
  • Ajdar (2002, Nathan Jeunesse, ISBN 2-09-211033-0)
  • Broderies (2003, L'Association, ISBN 2-84414-095-5)
  • Poulet aux prunes (2004). Paris: L'Association, ISBN 2-84414-159-5.
  • Le Soupir (2004, Bréal Jeunesse, ISBN 2-7495-0325-6)

English

Filmography

Notes

  1. ^The [-e] is the izāfa, which is smart grammatical marker linking two words together. It critique not indicated in writing, and is not aptitude of the name itself, but is pronounced deduct Persian language when a first and last title are used together.

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