MARJANE SATRAPI was born in Rasht, Iran. She now lives in Paris, where she is a regular contributor to magazines and newspapers throughout the world, including The New Yorker and The New York Times. She is the author of Persepolis, Persepolis 2, Embroideries, Chicken with Plums, and several children's books. She cowrote and codirected the animated feature film version of Persepolis, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
Praise for Persepolis: Volume 1
A New York Times Notable Book • A Time Magazine “Best Comix of
the Year” • A San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles
Times Best Seller
"A memoir of growing up as a girl in revolutionary Iran, Persepolis
provides a unique glimpse into a nearly unknown and unreachable way
of life.... That Satrapi chose to tell her remarkable story as a
gorgeous comic book makes it totally unique and indispensable."
—Time
“Delectable... Dances with drama and insouciant wit.” —The New York
Times Book Review
“A stunning graphic memoir hailed as a wholly original achievement
in the form. There’s still a startling freshness to the book. It
won’t age. In inky shadows and simple, expressive lines—reminiscent
of Ludwig Bemelmans’s “Madeline”—Satrapi evokes herself and her
schoolmates coming of age in a world of protests and disappearances
... A stark, shocking impact.” —Parul Sehgal, “The 50 Best
Memoirs of the Past 50 Years” The New York Times
“A dazzlingly singular achievement.... Striking a perfect balance
between the fantasies and neighborhood conspiracies of childhood
and the mounting lunacy of Khomeini's reign, she's like the Persian
love child of Spiegelman and Lynda Barry.” —Salon
“A brilliant and unusual graphic memoir.... [Told] in a guileless
voice ... accompanied by a series of black-and-white drawings that
dramatically illustrate how a repressive regime deforms ordinary
lives.” —Vogue
"Odds are, you’ll be too busy being entertained to realize how much
you’ve learned until you turn the last page.” —Elle.com
“[A] self-portrait of the artist as a young girl, rendered in
graceful black-and-white comics that apply a childlike sensibility
to the bleak lowlights of recent Iranian history. . . . [Her] style
is powerful; it persuasively communicates confusion and horror
through the eyes of a precocious preteen.” —Village Voice
Praise for Persepolis: Volume 2
"Wildly charming ... Like a letter from a friend, in this case a
wonderful friend: honest, strong-willed, funny, tender, impulsive,
and self-aware."
—The New York Times Book Review
"The most original coming-of-age story from the Middle East
yet."
—People
"Elegant, simple panels tell this story of growth, loneliness, and
homecoming with poignant charm and wit."
—The Washington Post
"Humorous and heartbreaking ... A welcome look beind the headlines
and into the heart and mind of one very wise, wicked, and winning
young woman."
—Elle
"Every revolution needs a chronicler like Satrapi."
—San Francisco Chronicle
"It is our good fortune that Satrapi has never stopped visiting
Iran in her mind."
—Newsweek
"Persepolis 2 is much more than the chronicle of a young woman’s
struggle into adulthood; it’s a brilliant, painful, rendering of
the contrast between East and West, between the repression of
wartime Iran and the social, political, and sexual freedoms of
1980’s Austria. There’s something universal about Satrapi’s search
for self-definition, but her experiences in Vienna and Tehran are
rendered with such witty particularity, and such heartbreaking
honesty, that by the end of this book you’ll feel you’ve gained an
intimate friend."
—Julie Orringer, author of How To Breathe Underwater
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