His body was buried in an unmarked grave in the prison. Anoosh was only allowed one visitor the night before his execution, and he requested Satrapi. Once back in Iran, Anoosh was arrested again and sentenced to death. Young Satrapi greatly admired her uncle, and he in turn doted on her, treating her more as a daughter than a niece. She found a hero in her paternal uncle, Anoosh, who had been a political prisoner and lived in exile in the Soviet Union for a time. Many of her family friends were persecuted, arrested, and even murdered. ĭuring her youth, Satrapi was exposed to the growing brutalities of the various regimes. When the Iranian Revolution took place in 1979, they underwent rule by the Islamic fundamentalists who took power. Both her parents were politically active and supported leftist causes against the monarchy of the last Shah. She grew up in Tehran in an upper-middle class Iranian family and attended the French-language school, Lycée Razi. Her best-known works include the graphic novel Persepolis and its film adaptation, the graphic novel Chicken with Plums, and the Marie Curie biopic Radioactive. Marjane Satrapi ( French: Persian: مرجان ساتراپی born 22 November 1969) is a French-Iranian graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author.
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