The Franco-Iranian artist Marjane Satrapi, who achieved maximum fame throughout the world with the comic and then the film “Persepolis”, has died at the age of 56. His entourage announced it, according to the newspaper Le Parisien.
“Marjane Satrapi – we read in a statement from her family sent to the AFP agency – died of sadness just over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and love of her life”. Producer, actor and screenwriter, Mattias Ripa died on April 8, 2025.
Atrapi, a designer and illustrator, had lived in France for about 30 years. Several of his comics have become famous, but also his films. The adaptation of Persepolis as an animated feature film based on the comic series, told in great detail the author’s childhood in Iran during the Islamic revolution, and then her exile in Europe. There were many scenes and characters involved in the arrests and executions that followed that revolt and Khomeini’s coming to power. The film won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007.