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=Home= = Marjane Satrapi = **مرجان ساتراپی**

Born in Iran in 1969, Marjane Satrapi was raised in a modern family. As a child she liked to read American comics such as Tin Tin and Asterix. At the age of 14 she was sent to Vienna, Austria, due to the political situation in Iran. Later she returned to Iran and got married, however at the age of 24 she got divorced from her husband and moved to France. Where she started writing the graphic novel Persepolis.

Marjane Satrapi has said that it was only after she left Iran that she resumed her childhood interest of reading comics. She also expresses that she [|"was astonished by the things we could do with comics”]

Marjane Satrapi is now a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines all over the world and has published several children’s books as well and the international best-selling graphic novel Persepolis and Persepolis 2.

In-depth interview with Satrapi can be found here. . Satrapi talks about why Persepolis was written the way it was: media type="youtube" key="aMwfzqEqVLk" width="425" height="350"