Persepolis

Persepolis has received high acclaim and praise but has also met its fair share of criticism. A lot of organizations and states call for Persepolis to be censored. Persepolis can be described as “sometimes funny, sometimes sad but always revealing and sincere.

 

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Marjane Satrapi's self portrait drawn in the back of her graphic memoir "Persepolis". The illustration, although very simple, resembles her well and shows bits of her personality though the inclusion of a cigarette in her hand, and platform boots. Below, we can compare her resemblance in the illustration to her photograph.  

Above, Marjane...

Satrapi was interviews by Emma Watson for Vogues “Our Shared Shelf” bookclub. The two talked about the relative freedom that women shared in Iran in the 1970’s. Satrapi raised a very important point about educated women in Iran. She said that they have more rights because they can ask for a divorce, but if a woman is uneducated and not economically sound with children you stay with that man. She continues to say that 70% percent of women in Iran are in school because they w...

Marjane Satrapi became popular due to her graphic novel novels about her story in Iran. They were published in French. She later won the Angoulême Coup de Coeur Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. Due to the violent nature and language of the story, Schools in Chicago ordered Persepolis to be removed from schools and classrooms in 2013. This was a case of censorship and islamiphobia. The novel deals with Satrapi’s childhood in Tehran during the Iraq and Iran...

• In 2001, Marjane Satrapi won the Angoulême Coup de Coeur Award, a major prize for comics authors, for her graphic novel ‘Persepolis’.
• In 2002, ‘Persepolis: Tome 2’ won the Angoulême Prize for Scenario, another prestigious award given during the annual Angoulême Comics Festival in France.
• In 2005, the Angoulême Best Comic Book Award was given to ‘Poulet aux Prunes’, Satrapi’s second work to receive r...

Back in Iran, she turned out to be much progressively discouraged. She was 19 years of age, her long-time friends had rejected her as a corrupt individual, she had felt as if she belonged nowhere and had no place that she can call home. She attempted to cut her wrists, however failed at that “a fruit knife was never going to do the trick”. She took an overdose of antidepressants, yet they simply made her rest for three days allowing her to escape everything that she was going thro...

Satrapi was conceived on 1969 in Rasht and experienced youth in Tehran, where her father was an engineer and her mother a clothing designer. Her granddad was Nasser-al-Din Shah, Persian prince and ruler from the years 1848 to 1896. Her family were communalist shrewd individuals who savored the experience of the incredible life - they drove extravagant cars, drank alcohol, and had stewards, intensely westernized. They waged holy war against the Shah, and foreseen the Islamic agitation till it ...