Persepolis

• 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 recognition at Angoulême.
• In 2007, the Jury Prize of the Cannes Film Festival was awarded to the film adaptation of ‘Persepolis’, which Satrapi co-directed and co-wrote.
• In 2008, the Cinema for Peace Award recognized ‘Persepolis’ as the ‘Most Valuable Movie of the Year’.
• In 2009, Marjane Satrapi was awarded honorary doctorate degrees from two universities: the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Université catholique de Louvain.
• In 2013, Satrapi’s work was recognized in her native country, when ‘Chicken with Plums’ received the Noor Iranian Film Festival’s award for Best Animation.

- Ripin