Marjane Satrapi

Born November 22, 1969· Rasht, Iran

† Died June 4, 2026

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Emerging from a childhood split between Rasht, Tehran and later Vienna, she earned a master’s in visual communication in Tehran and refined her artistic practice at the Haute école des arts du Rhin in Strasbourg. Her autobiographical comics, released in French between 2000 and 2003 and later translated as Persepolis, brought global attention and secured the Angoulême Coup de Coeur Award; the work…

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources