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"The series was adapted into a 2007 film that was nominated for the Academy Award for best animated feature. 'Persepolis,' the author Fernanda Eberstadt From (NYT).The obituary quotes Satrapi: "Even basic human rights, they deny us. You don’t have the right to dance, you don’t have the right to sing, you don’t have the right to do this, you don’t have the right to do that."The NYT obituary doesn't say how Satrapi died, but at Deadline, : "'Marjane Satrapi died of sadness a little over a year ...