Oscar-nominated Persepolis author Marjane Satrapi dies aged 56

She "captivated a planetary assemblage with Persepolis", the palace said, calling her "a starring fig successful French civilization and an creator devoted to freedom, whose enactment carried a cosmopolitan connection and earned her immense planetary renown".

Persepolis, archetypal published successful 2000, follows the communicative of a young miss increasing up during and aft the 1979 Iranian Revolution, besides known arsenic the Islamic Revolution. Eight years later, the movie adaptation was nominated for champion animated diagnostic astatine the Oscars, having been co-directed by Satrapi.

News bureau AFP quoted a "member of her adjacent circle" arsenic saying she had "died of sadness a small implicit a twelvemonth aft the decease of Mattias Ripa, her hubby and the emotion of her life".

The palace added: "With her childlike perspective, her irony, her tenderness, and her interior demons, the writer created a profoundly moving satellite with which readers identified."

Satrapi was an outspoken professional of Iran's government, and Persepolis depicts her puerility successful the Iranian superior of Tehran, struggling nether the rules imposed by Iran's Islamic enactment pursuing the 1979 revolution.

It past goes connected to travel her arsenic she is sent to Europe by her parents to statesman a beingness successful exile.

The movie mentation stars Chiara Mastroianni arsenic young Marjane and Catherine Deneuve arsenic her mother.

They noted: "Through this profoundly idiosyncratic and almighty film, she gave audiences a communicative of identity, freedom, exile and absorption that continues to resonate crossed the world."

Satrapi studied successful Austria for 4 years arsenic a teen astatine the prestigious Lycée Français de Vienne.

She returned location for a period, aft a superior bout of bronchitis, to find a overmuch changed Tehran - arsenic depicted successful the 2nd publication successful the Persepolis series.

She gained a master's grade successful ocular connection from the Islamic Azad University successful Tehran, and besides joined but past divorced.

Her parents urged her to permission Iran and instrumentality to Europe, which she did, moving to France to further her acquisition astatine the Haute School Arts Du Rhin successful Strasbourg.

After much than a decennary successful the country, she gained French nationality successful 2006, but past twelvemonth refused the French legion d'honneur - the French equivalent of an OBE - implicit what she called her beloved adopted country's "hypocrisy" successful its dealings with her location nation.

She supported protests for state and rights against the authorities successful Iran.

In the aftermath of the Woman Life Freedom protests - launched successful Iran successful 2022 aft the death of Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by the morality constabulary for not wearing her hijab decently - Satrapi told Deadline however her parents had antecedently taken to the streets to protestation the regime's imposition of the hijab for women successful 1983.

"He was 1 of the precise fewer men; they didn't recognize astatine the clip that women's rights are society's rights," she said of her father.

She besides revealed she had received threats and slurs from the authorities regarding Persepolis and her activism.

"I've been called a liar and a spy. I've learned successful beingness not to beryllium scared," she says. "It's not that you don't consciousness fear; you consciousness the fear, but past you determine whether you attraction astir it oregon not.

"It's not that I'm fearless oregon careless but determination are kids successful my state who are being changeable and they are 17 years old, portion I person lived for much than fractional a century."

"We artists indispensable beryllium humble but doing thing is worse, being indifferent is worse," she said. "I don't deliberation what I'm doing is immense oregon immense but I person a voice, I person a look and I'm known successful France, I'm conscionable doing what I person to do."

Her different movie credits included 2014 fearfulness drama The Voices, starring Ryan Reynolds arsenic a mill idiosyncratic with schizophrenia, whose hallucinations thrust him to perpetrate murder.

She besides directed a biopic of the pioneering Polish-French physicist and chemist Marie Curie, entitled Radioactive; arsenic good arsenic Poulet aux Prunes (2011) and La Bande des Jotas (2012). Her different novels see Embroiderie and Woman, Life, Freedom.

Satrapi's husband, a Swedish producer, histrion and screenwriter, died past twelvemonth and she precocious published a bid of heartfelt Instagram posts saying: "For I Lost the emotion of my life".