Marjane Satrapi, Author of “Persepolis,” Dies at 56 (opens in new tab)

Iranian-French filmmaker and author Marjane Satrapi, whose graphic novel series and film Persepolis, introduced the Western world to the precarity of everyday life in the wake of the Islamic Revolution, died on June 3. She was fifty-six. Her death was announced by French president Emmanuel Macron. Satrapi’s family and close friends in a statement to […]