With Marjane Satrapi, France loses one of the most influential cultural voices of recent decades. The author, illustrator, and director died at the age of 56 in Paris. Her name remains inseparably linked with a work that had an impact far beyond the boundaries of literature: Persepolis. Born in 1969 in Tehran, Satrapi experienced the Islamic Revolution of 1979 as a child and the upheavals that fundamentally changed the country.…
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