Best Graphic Novel written and illustrated by Marjane Satrapi.
Marjane Satrapi
1969-
Satrapi is a Iranian and French graphic novelist, illustrator, children’s book author and an Academy Award-nominated animated film director. She lived in Tehran until the age of 14, when her parents sent her to Vienna to escape the Iranian regime. Her most famous work is her autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis, which describe her childhood in Iran and her adolescence in Europe. The graphic novel won the Angouleme Coup de Coeur Award and in 2007 a film adaptation was released. This, in turn, won the Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival and the Award for Most Valuable Movie of the Year from the Cinema for Peace. She has contributed several articles and comics to the Op-Ed section of The New York Times. Following the Iranian elections in 2009, Marjane Satrapi and Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf appeared before Green Party members of the European Parliament to present a document that suggested Mir Hossein Mousavi had actually won the election. Although not all of her work has been translated into english there has been a growing interest in her writing.
Themes: Politics, Revolution, Family, Identity, Sex, Love, Monsters, Childhood, Music, Religion
Non-Fiction (In English)
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
Embroideries
Chicken with Plums
