Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis, was born in 1969, in Rasht, Iran, and immigrated to France in 1994. She now lives in Paris.Satrapi attended Lycée Français (Tehran) and studied illustration in Strasbourg, France.
She is also the author of Embroideries (2005), Ajdar (2006, children's book), Chicken with Plums (2006), and Monsters Are Afraid of the Moon (2007, children's book).
Satrapi's family supported the removal of the Shah in 1979, but Iran was even more repressive under the ayatollahs and religious fundamentalism. School children were separated by gender, girls were required to wear veils, the legal age at which girls could marry was lowered to nine, and when the Iran-Iraq war began, they were forced to mourn the dead twice a day. Satrapi opposed these restrictions and was expelled for hitting a principal who told her she could not wear jewelry. Fearing for their rebellious daughter, her family sent Marjane to Vienna at the age of fourteen.
Marjane Satrapi has done several interviews about her book and her life:
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