Century College Common Book Project -- <br>Marjane Satrapi

Century College Common Book Project

Marjane Satrapi

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Marjane Satrapi was born in 1969 in Rasht, on the edge of the Caspian Sea. She grew up in Tehran, where she studied at the Lycée Français, before leaving for Vienna and, later, Strasbourg to study Decorative Arts. From 1989-1994 she returned to her homeland to attain a Masters Degree in Visual Communication from the School of Fine Arts in Tehran. In 1994, she moved to Paris, where she currently resides.

She has written several children’s books and her commentary and comics appear in newspapers and magazines around the world, including The New York Times and The New Yorker. She is the author of the internationally best-selling and award-winning comic book autobiography in two parts, Persepolis (Pantheon, 2003) and Persepolis 2 (Pantheon, 2004). Embroideries was published in 2005 by Pantheon. Chicken with Plums was published in 2006 by Pantheon.

Marjane Satrapi Interview with Steven Colbert of the Colbert Report

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