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Bestselling Artist/ Illustrator, Filmmaker & Author Marjane Satrapi will be interviewed and answer questions from the audience.
Marjane Satrapi is a graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author. She was born in Iran and later moved to Paris. Her graphic novel Persepolis tells the story of her youth in Iran in the 1970s and 80s, of living through the Islamic Revolution and the war with Iraq. It is a book about childhood, a childhood at once outrageous and ordinary—beset by the unthinkable, but buffered by an extraordinary and loving family. Persepolis was published in four volumes in France, where it met with enormous critical acclaim, garnered comparisons to Art Spiegelman’s Maus, and won several prestigious comic book awards (Prix Alph’art Coup de Coeur at Angoulême, Prix du Lion in Belgium, Prix Alph’art du meilleur scénario, and the Prix France Info). Persepolis has been translated into more than forty languages.
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