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	Marjane Satrapi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marjane Satrapi (born November 22, 1969 in Rasht, Iran) is a contemporary graphic novelist and illustrator.
		In 1983, at the age of 14, Satrapi was sent to Vienna, Austria, by her parents in order to flee the Iranian regime.
		Satrapi has become famous worldwide because of her critically acclaimed, autobiographical graphic novels Persepolis and Persepolis 2, which describe her childhood in Iran and her adolescence in Europe in an intelligent and engaging portrait of everyday life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marjane_Satrapi (379 words)

	Pantheon Graphic Novels
		Marjane Satrapi was born in 1969 in Rasht, Iran.
		In powerful fl-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq.
		Marjane's child's-eye-view of dethroned emperors, state-sanctioned whippings, and heroes of the revolution allows us to learn as she does the history of this fascinating country and of her own extraordinary family.
	www.randomhouse.com /pantheon/graphicnovels/satrapi.html (636 words)

	Bookslut \| Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
		Satrapi found herself and her female schoolmates separated from the boys and forced to wear veils; and when the Iran-Iraq war began, the children would line up twice a day to mourn the war dead.
		Satrapi had learned rebelliousness from her parents, and by the time she was a teenager, it was apparent to them that her life would be in danger if she remained in Iraq.
		Satrapi wrings a lot of subtlety out of simple fl-and-white lines and shadows, and there are wonderful moments of nuance and metaphor, as when she renders a three-week trip to Spain and Italy in a single page, with herself and her parents flying on a magic carpet over the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
	www.bookslut.com /fiction/2003_08_000395.php (543 words)

	THE IRANIAN: Satrapi's Persepolis, Cathryn Clarke
		Marjane Satrapi's recently published comic novel Perspolis tells her story of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution and the Iran/Iraq war [See excerpt: "Days of our lives"].
		Marjane and her family must be careful to hide their "inside" life--which includes dancing and wine making-- from new neighbours as they don't know whether they are liberal or conservative.
		Marjane's preoccupation with the difference between social classes is an important element in the novel.
	www.iranian.com /Books/2003/September/Persepolis (944 words)

	Iran: Marjane Satrapi: a message everybody understands
		Marjane Satrapi is no ordinary young woman, she is a full-fledged princess.
		Marjane Satrapi could never be considered “politically correct”, which is probably what makes her work so convincing: she is not another exile denigrating the Islamic Revolution and glorifying the Shah’s regime.
		Marjane’s schoolmistress tells her that the emperor was chosen by God, but her father tells the little girl that when he came to power, he confiscated all the belongings of her forefathers, the Qadjars.
	www.chris-kutschera.com /%20A/Marjane%20Satrapi.htm (1110 words)

	Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi
		Satrapi is satisfied her parents are in no danger, but she says that because Iran is "not a state of law", her own treatment on return would be subject to the caprices of the officials she came across.
		Marjane Satrapi, the author of the graphic memoir-novels Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Pantheon, $17.95) and the recently released Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Pantheon, $17.95), bears a striking resemblance to her cartoon alter ego.
		Satrapi is not the first to suggest such a comparison, or to denounce Iran's Islamist regime, but she has discovered that strong and sometimes uncomfortable political convictions delivered in word bubbles by round-eyed cartoon characters can be easier to swallow than words alone.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /200405.html (11105 words)

	Powell's Books - Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
		Satrapi's mother tells an anecdote of the author as a child; still others spin yarns of their sometimes glamorous, sometimes difficult, lives in Iran.
		When a group of women — Marjane Satrapi's beloved, tough-talking grandmother, her mother, an eccentric aunt, and their friends and neighbors — gather for an afternoon of tea-drinking and talking, the conservation naturally turns to love, sex, and the vagaries of Iranian men.
		Marjane Satrapi was born in 1969 in Rasht, Iran, and currently lives in Paris.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0375423052-0 (541 words)

	A Review of Marjane Satrapi's 'Persepolis' and 'Perseplis 2' - Associated Content
		Marjane Satrapi, illustrator, writer and capturer of childhood’s truths, displays her talent in her comic-book style novels, Persepolis and Persepolis 2.
		In this cell Marjane is split in two, and she looks as though she is trying to run away from herself in the panic of receiving the news that her mother is coming for a visit.
		We fear for Marjane again when she returns to Iran, a westernized woman, only to have her friends ask, “What is the difference between you and a whore?” It is easy for the reader to be insulted by such a blow.
	www.associatedcontent.com /content.cfm?content_type=article&content_type_id=3334 (449 words)

	Bookreporter.com - PERSEPOLIS by Marjane Satrapi
		Marjane Satrapi demonstrates her writing and artistic skills in PERSEPOLIS, which tells the story of Satrapi's early childhood, with the main focus being on her life from age ten through fourteen, from 1980 through 1984.
		Those were particularly turbulent years for Satrapi's native country of Iran, encompassing the overthrow of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (the Shah of Iran), the installation of the Islamic Republic, and the war with Iraq.
		In her introduction to PERSEPOLIS, Satrapi notes that writing this book was so important to her since her native country is associated with fundamentalism, fanaticism and terrorism; she does not want the entire nation judged, in her words, upon the actions of a few extremists.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0375422307.asp (468 words)

	Barbelith Underground > Comic Books > PERSEPOLIS by Marjane Satrapi
		I guess on of the areas i really find interesting are the perspectives of Marjane and her parents on their homeland as its veers into fundermentalism- Satrapi manages to show us the daily lives of Iranians in a simple clear fashion that appears to have eluded 10001 news programs.
		Satrapi and I are the same age and so perhaps I was more readily affected by her memoir.
		Satrapi's artwork is deceptively simple, and alternately reminds me of medieval European woodcuts and communist propaganda (I love the visual repetition in her more powerful panels, like the police at the burning of the movie theater (p.14 & 15).
	www.barbelith.com /topic/13336 (2474 words)

	Bublos.com, Books ›› Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
		Marjane Satrapi has an interesting life story to tell, and she does it very well here in the under-appreciated graphic strip format.
		Satrapi was born to a progressive family in Iran, and when she was a teenager during Iran's Islamic Revolution, her parents sent her off to school in Europe, where there were certainly better life choices for a young woman.
		Satrapi's, artistic style is simplistic and pretty understated technically, though she is excellent at capturing facial expressions, and her style is perfectly suited for focusing the reader's attention on the story.
	www.bublos.com /isbn/0375422889.html (2082 words)

	village voice > books > Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi; Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar ...
		For Marjane Satrapi the process was even more unsettling, because she came of age in 1980s Iran, as her country was mutating from the familiar world of her youth into a totalitarian theocracy.
		Satrapi is the only daughter of an elite, intellectual family; her great-grandfather was Iran's last Qajar emperor, and her great-uncle helped establish the independent republic of Azerbaijan.
		Satrapi's super-naive style is powerful; it persuasively communicates confusion and horror through the eyes of a precocious preteen.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0319/press.php (1066 words)

	Weed, sex, paranoia -- Iranian graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi lets it all out in 'Persepolis' sequel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		When Marjane Satrapi was 14, her parents decided to spare her the tension of living in war-ravaged Iran.
		Critics poured praise on both books, sales are brisk for the second one, and Satrapi, who lives in the Marais district of Paris with her Swedish husband of eight years, plans to direct an animated-film version of the two volumes.
		Satrapi says she never suspected that "Persepolis" would be greeted so warmly in the United States.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/10/02/DDG2J915OU1.DTL (1039 words)

	Marjane Satrapi & Steven Barclay Agency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Marjane Satrapi was born in 1969 in Rasht, on the edge of the Caspian Sea.
		Persepolis tells the story of Marjane Satrapi’s youth in Iran in the 1970s and 80s, of living through the Islamic Revolution and the war with Iraq.
		Marjane Satrapi lives in Paris, where her illustrations appear regularly in newspapers and magazines.
	www.barclayagency.com /satrapi.html (338 words)

	Frenchculture.org \| Books \| Satrapi Persepolis Book Contest / Deadline Oct. 20, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 1984, Satrapi's parents, liberals who lived under constant threat from the Iranian regime but were determined not to leave their country, sent her to Austria to complete her studies in safety and freedom.
		Satrapi's story is in many ways the chronicle of a normal childhood, experienced by a well-adjusted girl from a loving family, that happens to be buffeted by the upheavals of history.
		Such issues have more serious consequences, though, because she is in a foreign land without family or protectors, and looked upon with suspicion not just by xenophobes but by people who automatically associate her with the very aspects of her own country she is there to escape.
	www.frenchculture.org /books/events/04satrapicontest.html (567 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood - Marjane Satrapi - Paperback
		Satrapi was patriotic; she was relieved to see her father cheer when the BBC confirmed that Iranian bombers had hit Baghdad.
		Satrapi's autobiography is a timely and timeless story of a young girl's life under the Islamic Revolution.
		Satrapi's art is minimal and stark yet often charming and humorous as it depicts the madness around her.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=0H7Stf5CSd&isbn=037571457X&itm=2 (1646 words)

	Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
		Satrapi's story focusses on how she remembers the Iranian revolution and then the first years after.
		Satrapi's parents went on a trip to Turkey and brought her back posters of Kim Wilde and Iron Maiden (talk about anti-revolutionary statements for a young girl to want to make in her bedroom !).
		Satrapi focusses much more on the smaller everyday occurrences that stand out in the life of a girl such as her.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/iran/satrapim.htm (1509 words)

	Bookslut \| An Interview with Marjane Satrapi
		In Satrapi’s first installment of her memoir of Iranian life before, during and after the 1979 revolution, she chose to end with the image of our fourteen-year-old heroine -- the cartoon Marjane -- with her hands pressed against airport glass as her father carried away her fainting mother.
		Marjane was being sent by her parents to Vienna to get an education, and to go through those best of times -- the teen years -- free from a totalitarian regime.
		In an interview in her hotel lounge, Satrapi talks with a rapid, thick accent and cigarette in hand about teenage rebellion, identity crises, and such important things as peeing in pools and how Jennifer Lopez will never play her dad in the movie.
	www.bookslut.com /features/2004_10_003261.php (3077 words)

	NYFA Interactive - New York Foundation for the Arts
		Marjane Satrapi’s second comic book in her Persepolis series elegantly and harrowingly documents her youth during the turbulent ’70s and ’80s in Iran.
		Iranian expatriate Marjane Satrapi's graphic-novel memoir, Persepolis: the Story of a Childhood, is one of the very few comic-books-for-adults (superheroes being for kids, right?) that anyone in the US who isn't a comics geek has ever heard of.
		This is where Satrapi's brilliant use of the medium becomes most apparent: It allows her to render even horrifying material—and the two books, taken together, contain some of the most gruesome anecdotes you're ever likely to read—in an almost cloying way that doesn't overwhelm—that allows, in other words, for maximum absorption.
	www.nyfa.org /level3.asp?id=279&fid=6&sid=17 (1169 words)

	Persepolis : The Story of a Childhood (Alex Awards (Awards)), Pantheon, Marjane Satrapi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Satrapi dives right into the complexities of class and race in her homeland of Iran, she tells the story of her path out of childhood into independence, and even gets in an amusing exchange between Marx and Descartes.
		Marjane was very particular in telling the story of revolution from a child's point of view, as if it was written right at that time.
		Satrapi's Persepolis elevates the art of old comic books to a new literary height, capturing the author's childhood in a graphically gripping, and appropriately austere, documentary.
	www.sharisgarden.net /mystores/item_0375422307.html (1654 words)

	MoorishGirl: Marjane Satrapi Reading
		The formidable Marjane Satrapi was at Powell's on Friday night, for the release of Persepolis 2, the second volume of her best-selling memoir.
		Satrapi started her talk by joking that she would pre-emptively justify herself.
		Satrapi is still touring the States and will be in the Bay Area on September 20th and 21st, in Washington DC on the 23rd, and in New York on the 24th.
	www.moorishgirl.com /archives/001677.html (357 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Embroideries - Marjane Satrapi - Hardcover
		Satrapi's artwork does nothing to elevate her source material; her straightforward b&w drawings simply illustrate the stories, rather than elucidating or adding meaning to them.
		It's refreshingly surprising from the get-go, as Satrapi introduces her grandmother as an elegantly made-up grande dame, an old woman who just happens to be a lifelong opium addict and who encourages Satrapi to close her eyes more-all in order to have a drugged look that would be seductive for men.
		Satrapi noetheless has a wonderful concept and is an entertaining writer...just not with this peice.
	btobsearch.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?btob=Y&isbn=0375423052 (1022 words)

	Amazon.com: Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Satrapi's art is deceptively simple: it's capable of expressing a wide range of emotion and capturing subtle characterization with the bend of a line.
		marjane satrapi saw the worst of the islamic revolution as a child, and eventually her parents sent her to convent school in vienna to escape.
		satrapi owes as much to iranian storytelling as she does to western graphic art, and it's no surprise that her books (like most comics) are easily translated and easier to digest in translation.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375422889?v=glance (2216 words)

	Jabberwock: Ventilating the heart: Marjane Satrapiâs Embroideries
		Marjane Satrapi has been widely acclaimed for her autobiographical graphic novels Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and Persepolis II: The Story of a Return, about growing up in Iran under the shadow of the Islamic revolution - and later, as a liberated young woman, dealing with repression and hypocrisy.
		Nor are Satrapiâs trademark woodcut illustrations as complex or innovative as in the earlier novels.
		Satrapi herself is part of the story, along with her mother, grandmother and aunts, and this book is undoubtedly an amalgamation of many such womenâs discussions she has been part of, or has heard about: itâs obvious that she has an insiderâs view.
	jaiarjun.blogspot.com /2005/07/ventilating-heart-marjane-satrapis.html (867 words)

	Amazon.ca: Persepolis: the Story of a Childhood: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Told through the eyes of a child (as reflected in Satrapi's simplistic yet expressive fl-and-white artwork), young Marjane learns about her family history and how it is entwined with the history of Iran, and watches her liberal parents cope with a fundamentalist regime that gets increasingly rigid as it gains more power.
		Satrapi presents her memories growing up during the revolutionary Iran in comic-book form, uniquely illustrating the powerful emotions that she felt.
		Satrapi was only 9 years old when the revolution began, and she tells the powerful story of her family's life as revolutionaries before the Shah, welcoming his ouster.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0375422307 (870 words)

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