Marjane Satrapi was born in 1969 in Rasht ... How do you think your portrayal of the veil in Persepolis 1 in particular played into debates in France regarding the prohibition of the veil? Oh, they ...

and graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi confessed she had originally thought that adapting her autobiographical comic Persepolis for film was a terrible idea. “I always thought that was the worst ...

PARIS – French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the graphic novels Persepolis (2000 to 2003) and the 2007 film adaptation, has refused France’s Legion d’Honneur ...