Marjane Satrapi

Marjane Satrapi is a French-Iranian author, illustrator, and filmmaker.
* She was born in 1969 in Rasht, Iran.
* Her parents were both political activists, and her childhood was shaped by the Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War.
* In 1984, she was sent to Austria to continue her education.
* She returned to Iran in 1988 and studied art at the University of Tehran.
* In 1994, she moved to France, where she began her career as a cartoonist and filmmaker.
* Her most famous work is the graphic novel Persepolis, which tells the story of her childhood in Iran.
* Persepolis was adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film in 2007.
* Satrapi continues to write and draw, and her work has been translated into over 30 languages.