Persepolis

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 war. The novel starts with her just being 10 and already faces oppression.

Although she’s known for Persepolis she has also published a children book called “Les Monstres n’aiment pas la lune (2001; Monsters Are Afraid of the Moon) and Le Soupir (2004; The Sigh).

Persepolis later got a film adaptation in 2007. It won a Jury’s prize and later be nominated for an Academy Award for Best feature.

http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/content/persepolis-story-childhood

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- Dillon