Character: Marjane Satrapi, the director of Persepolis, has died

The French-Iranian comic creator and film director Marjane Satrapi died at the age of 56. “She died of grief just over a year after her husband’s death,” her relatives told AFP.

Satrapi began his studies at the French-Persian bilingual Lycée Français Institute in Tehran. After the 1979 Iranian revolution, at the urging of his parents, he moved to Europe, where he first studied in a French-language school in Vienna, and later continued his studies in Strasbourg. It is about these years and his return to Iran Persepolis his comic book, the details of which were originally published in four booklets between 2000 and 2003, and which has now become one of the most significant works inspired by autobiography in European comics.

Most of its critics and analysts regard it as an autobiographical work Persepolist, however, Satrapi has repeatedly stated that his work cannot be considered a completely authentic historical documentation. He claimed that he actually used his childhood experiences in the story to show the Western world a different picture of the Iran that had many misunderstandings and misconceptions about it at the time.

The comic was turned into a full-length animated film directed by Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, which premiered at the 2007 Cannes festival, where it won the jury prize in the feature film category. The Hungarian edition of the comic was published in two volumes, translated by Krisztina Rády and edited by Nyitott Könyvműhely, in 2007 and 2008, and in 2015, it was also published in one volume by Libri.

Satrapi, France24 writeshas been away from the media for a few months. In a statement sent to AFP by her next of kin, Marjane Satrapi died of sadness, just over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life.