Marjane Satrapi
With her deceptively simple line drawings and witty, sparse writing, , 41, has set new standards in graphic novels. But her autobiographical series, Persepolis (which has sold more than a million copies), and the based on them, disseminated a more nuanced view of The daughter of wealthy westernised Marxists, Satrapi lived through the bombing of Tehran during the Iran/Iraq war, before being sent to school in Austria aged 14. Always the rebel, she was expelled and was homeless and selling drugs before she returned to Iran at 19. Her criticism ...
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